The Journal of Steam Transport and Husbandry. Dec. 1833, Bind 39Smith, Elder & Company, 1834 |
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Side 4
... ment substantially exemplified in our so- cial condition . Society has been too long amused with the brilliant soap - bubble speculations which a set of philosophers have floated upon the popular breath , on the one hand , or with the ...
... ment substantially exemplified in our so- cial condition . Society has been too long amused with the brilliant soap - bubble speculations which a set of philosophers have floated upon the popular breath , on the one hand , or with the ...
Side 7
... ment the necessary encouragement is af- forded . Mr. Phillips ' Getomic Apparatus , described in the fifth Journal , though by no means a perfect machine , is yet suffi- cient to shew that a little further ingenuity will make it such ...
... ment the necessary encouragement is af- forded . Mr. Phillips ' Getomic Apparatus , described in the fifth Journal , though by no means a perfect machine , is yet suffi- cient to shew that a little further ingenuity will make it such ...
Side 11
... ment No. 1 , was 90,972 tons in 5392 trips , averaging about 17 tons per trip at most , as the profitable weight ; it is plain , that as the engine , tender , fuel , water , and at- tendance may be said to average about 12 tons , the ...
... ment No. 1 , was 90,972 tons in 5392 trips , averaging about 17 tons per trip at most , as the profitable weight ; it is plain , that as the engine , tender , fuel , water , and at- tendance may be said to average about 12 tons , the ...
Side 12
... ment it was only 44 per cent . See State- ment No. 2 . But , it will be said , that the question is not about the surplus weight , or the amount of expenses generally , but whether a satis- factory return can be made for the capital ...
... ment it was only 44 per cent . See State- ment No. 2 . But , it will be said , that the question is not about the surplus weight , or the amount of expenses generally , but whether a satis- factory return can be made for the capital ...
Side 19
... ment , although the carriage on the Man- chester line , to make the cost only the latter figures , was after the rate of 180,000 passengers more at least than the Brighton Railway is estimated to convey . We see , however , no good ...
... ment , although the carriage on the Man- chester line , to make the cost only the latter figures , was after the rate of 180,000 passengers more at least than the Brighton Railway is estimated to convey . We see , however , no good ...
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agricultural annum application of Steam Bart Bill Birmingham line Birmingham Railway boats Brighton Bristol line calculations Canal capital carry cent Charles Dance cheaper chester line classes coach department Committee common roads conveyance corn-laws cost Coutts and Co cubic yards cuttings Directors Ditto Elemental Locomotion embankments engines estimate expense fact feet half Holyhead horses House of Commons important improvements income INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTION interest Journal of Elemental Journal of Steam Keith Douglas labour land latter less Liverpool Liverpool Railway London Lord machinery Macneill Manchester line ment mile for mile mode nearly object Parliament passengers petitioners profit proposed prosperity prove purpose Rail rail-roads red line shareholders shew Shoreham Sir Charles Sir Coutts Trotter Sir John Rennie Six months society stage coaches Statement Steam Car Steam Carriages Steam Transport Stephenson tion tons Transport and Husbandry trips vessel waggon department Walker weight whilst whole
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Side 52 - ... motion. She continued to move on. All were still incredulous. None seemed willing to trust the evidence of their own senses. We left the fair city of New York; we passed through the romantic and ever-varying scenery of the highlands ; we descried the clustering houses of Albany; we reached its shores; and then, even then, when all seemed achieved, I was the victim of disappointment. Imagination superseded the influence of fact. It was then doubted, if it could be done again ; or if done, it was...
Side 48 - These inquiries have led the Committee to believe that the substitution of inanimate for animal power, in draught on common roads, is one of the most important improvements in the means of internal communication ever introduced. Its practicability they consider to have been fully established ; its general adoption will take place more or less rapidly, in proportion as the attention of scientific men shall be drawn by public encouragement to further improvement.
Side 51 - I told you it was so; it is a foolish scheme ; I wish we were well out of it.' I elevated myself upon a platform, and addressed the assembly. I stated that I knew not what was the matter ; but if they would be quiet, and indulge me for half an hour, I would either go on or abandon the voyage for that time.
Side 51 - Folly. Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. Silence itself was but politeness, veiling its doubts, or hiding its reproaches.
Side 27 - But, why were capitalists not told that instead of locomotives being ' more effective,' and the ' wear and tear less,' on the Bristol line, as compared with the Manchester line, it must be greater. For ' the road upon the whole between Manchester and Liverpool is so level," says one account of the Railway by Mr. TT Bury, page 2, ' that, with the exception of two inclined planes at Rainhill, there is no greater inclination than in the ratio of about one in 880, or six feet in a mile : so that at the...
Side 61 - Carpmael, who had taken accurate minutes of the loss of time occasioned by stoppages, that the average rate of travelling had been seven miles per hour. Thus there can be no doubt, that, with a well constructed engine of greater power, a steam carriage conveyance between London and Birmingham, at a velocity unattainable by horses, and limited only by safety, might be maintained...
Side 12 - Unhappily, however, not even the ' most eminent engineers,' nor the ' undoubted talents and activity of the Surveyors,' have been able to prevent a fourth break down in the professional estimate, the cost having risen from 17,0002.
Side 2 - The Committee of 1821 expressed a hope "that the great body of the Occupiers of the Soil, either from the Savings of more prosperous times, or from the Credit which punctuality commands in this Country, possess resources which will enable them to surmount the difficulties under which they now labour.
Side 51 - ... doing one's duty. Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat in North America, which, in a few years, has produced such an astonishing change in that vast country, by connecting together its most distant states, sustained the mortification of not being comprehended by his countrymen. He was, therefore, treated as an idle projector, whose schemes would be useless to the world and ruinous to himself.
Side 2 - that the complaints of the Petitioners are founded in fact, in so far as they represent that at the present price of Corn, the returns to the Occupier of an Arable Farm, after allowing for the Interest of his Investment, are by no means adequate to the charges and outgoings, of which a considerable proportion can be paid only out of the Capitals, and not from the Profits of the Tenantry.