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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 692

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t station in advance. This was the beginning of the block system, which is a great element in the safe operation of traffic, sinceit maintains an interval of space between trains. Mr. Edwin Clarks tele-graph block system was introduced in 1853, and as traffic increased interme-diate block signal… … AN AMERICAN EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE. first held that it was not adapted to conditions in this country, where somany lines have but a single track, but experience has shown that it increasesthe facility as well as the safety of operating traffic on single and doubletrack lines alike. Steam locomotives…

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