 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1888 - 824 pages
...the European lines. As it was with the railway, so it was with the locomotive. The Stephenson type, once fixed, has remained unchanged (in Europe), except...great firm of George Stephenson & Son, before 1840. When we come to the "united States we find an entirely different state of things. The key to the evolution... | |
 | Thomas Curtis Clarke - 1889 - 492 pages
...the European lines. As it was with the railway, so it was with the locomotive. The Stephenson type, once fixed, has remained unchanged (in Europe), except...increased in weight and power, and in perfection of Locomotive of To-day. material and workmanship, but the general features are those of the locomotives... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1890 - 456 pages
...the European lines. As it was with the railway, so it was with the locomotive. The Stephenson type, once fixed, has remained unchanged (in Europe), except...great firm of George Stephenson & Son, before 1840. When we come to the United States we find an entirely different state of things. The key to the evolution... | |
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... were made with easy grades and gentle curves. Monumental bridges, lofty stone viaducts, and deep cuts or tunnels at every hill marked this stage of railway construction in England, which was imitated on the European lines. As it was with the railway,... 