The Life of Robert Stephenson, F.R.S. Etc. Etc: Late President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 1Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864 |
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... whole truth of the son's life to the best of my ability . On my return from the North of England I gathered documentary materials from many different quarters , and ere long I was fortunate enough to bring together a mass of evidence ...
... whole truth of the son's life to the best of my ability . On my return from the North of England I gathered documentary materials from many different quarters , and ere long I was fortunate enough to bring together a mass of evidence ...
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... whole course of Railway engineering . The facts of its history , with the results and lessons to be drawn from it , seemed likely soon to be forgotten , and were considered worthy of being put fully on record . The preliminary chapter ...
... whole course of Railway engineering . The facts of its history , with the results and lessons to be drawn from it , seemed likely soon to be forgotten , and were considered worthy of being put fully on record . The preliminary chapter ...
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... whole sum paid for his education fell short of £ 40 . The expenditure , there- fore , for a father in George Stephenson's circumstances , was sufficient and appropriate , but nothing more . On Robert Stephenson's appearance at the Percy ...
... whole sum paid for his education fell short of £ 40 . The expenditure , there- fore , for a father in George Stephenson's circumstances , was sufficient and appropriate , but nothing more . On Robert Stephenson's appearance at the Percy ...
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... whole of the business part off your hands . And only consider what an opening it is for me as an entry into business ; and I am in- formed by all who have been there that it is a very healthy country . I must close this letter ...
... whole of the business part off your hands . And only consider what an opening it is for me as an entry into business ; and I am in- formed by all who have been there that it is a very healthy country . I must close this letter ...
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... whole surface of which , as far as the eye can reach , is thickly set with hills , several thousand feet high , from six to eight times as large as Brusselton Hill . There is a valley , however , which extends the whole way nearly ...
... whole surface of which , as far as the eye can reach , is thickly set with hills , several thousand feet high , from six to eight times as large as Brusselton Hill . There is a valley , however , which extends the whole way nearly ...
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Page 198 - ... or mentioned in the said books of reference, or any correction thereof, such temporary or permanent inclined planes, tunnels, embankments, aqueducts, bridges, roads, ways, passages, conduits, drains, piers, arches, cuttings and fences as they think proper.
Page 203 - Street, Somers Town, in the parish of St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex...
Page 170 - That the case for the promoters of the bill having been concluded, it does not appear to the Committee that they have made out such a case as would warrant the forcing of the proposed railway through the land and property of so great a proportion of dissentient landowners and proprietors.
Page 207 - The great Pyramid of Egypt, that stupendous monument which seems likely to exist to the end of all time, will afford a comparison. After making the necessary allowances for the foundations, galleries...
Page 279 - Little more than a quarter of a century has elapsed, since Parliament first began to legislate for railways. In that period a multitude of laws have been placed upon the statute-book, which will certainly excite the wonder, if they fail to be the admiration, of future ^generations.
Page 125 - Other engines with boilers of a variety of construction, were made, all having in view the increase of the heating surface, as it then became obvious to my father that the speed of the engine could not be increased without increasing the evaporative power of the boiler.
Page 234 - ... with the extinction of man himself. Mr. Cooke, in his turn, touched the keys and returned the answer. ' Never did I feel such a tumultuous sensation before...
Page 123 - 8. The price of the engine which may be accepted, not to exceed £550, delivered on the rail-way; and any engine not approved, to be taken back by the owner.
Page 254 - Edinbro', every other Saturday, or to the black swan in Holborn, every other Monday, at both of which places they may be received in a...
Page 282 - Give us," we say, " a tribunal competent to form a sound opinion. Commit to that tribunal, with any restrictions you think necessary, the whole of the great questions appertaining to our system. Let it protect private interests apart from railways; let it judge of the desirability of all initiatory measures, of all proposals for purchases, amalgamations, or other railway arrangements : delegate to it the power of enforcing such regulations and restrictions as may be thought needful to secure the...