The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators (1849)
er steam carriageprojectors, have never yet been productive of any injuriousconsequences by explosion, although they have frequently LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES ON TURNPIKE ROADS. 233 burst. I have stood close to a locomotive on the railroadwhen the boiler burst. The effect was that the water passedthrough… … (109.) One of the greatest difficulties which locomotivesupon a turnpike road have to encounter is the ascent of verysteep hills, for it is agreed upon all hands that hills of verymoderate inclinations present no difficulty which may notbe easily overcome, even in the present state of our…
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