age of thesame.—44. Great increase since.—45. Enormous consumption ofcoal.—46. Mileage of passengers and goods. 23. When the extraordinary speed sometimes imparted to theloads drawn by locomotive engines on the English railways isconsidered, it will not be uninteresting to explain what operations… … carried upon a railway, at a rate of sixty miles per hour. Assum-ing, as in a former example, that the circumference of the drivingwheel measures 26^ feet, these wheels, as already explained, willrevolve one hundred times in passing over half a mile, and there-130 OPERATION OF ENGINE. fore two…
Steam-engines · Steam-navigation · Locomotives
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