 | Pennsylvania - 1836 - 440 pages
...яз not in any place to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron or smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail...these stages as comfortably as they now do in steam siage But when we compare the great expense of repairing turnpike roads, which are travelled with narrow... | |
 | Paul Rapsey Hodge - Locomotion - 1840 - 266 pages
...sup at New-York the same day. " To accomplish this, two sets of rail-ways will be laid, travelled by night as well as by day, and the passengers will sleep...these stages as comfortably as they now do in steam stage boats. 3. "A steam engine, consuming from a quarter to a half cord of wood, will drive a carriage... | |
 | Charles C. B. Seymour - Biography - 1858 - 606 pages
...as not in any way to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, or smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail...directions, and travel by night as well as by day. Engines will drive boats ten or twelve miles per hour, and there will be many hundred steam-boats running... | |
 | Henry Howe - Technology & Engineering - 1858 - 524 pages
...as not in any way to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, or smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages « that they may pass each other in different directions, and travel by night as well as by day. Engines... | |
 | Charles C. B. Seymour - Biography - 1858 - 1454 pages
...more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, or smooth paths of broken atone ¿ gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages, so that they may pa¿ each other in different directions, and travel by night as well as by day. Engines will drive... | |
 | John Luther Ringwalt - Transportation - 1888 - 532 pages
...two degrees from the horizontal line, made of wood or iron or smooth paths of broken stone or gravcL with a rail to guide the carriages, so that they may...these stages as comfortably as they now do in steam stage boats." COLONEL JOHN STEVENS, OF HOBOKEN, whose advocacy of a railroad instead of a canal is... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - Inventors - 1896 - 400 pages
...as not in any way to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontalline, made of wood, or iron, or smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail...directions and travel by night as well as by day. Engines will drive boats ten or twelve miles per hour, and there will be many hundred steamboats running... | |
 | Henry Whittemore - Railroads - 1909 - 192 pages
...as not in any way to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, or smooth paths of broken stone or gravel with a rail...other in different directions and travel by night." PROPHECY OF WILLIAM C. BEDFIELD William C. Redfield of Cromwell, Conn., who introduced the system of... | |
 | Charles Frederick Carter - Railroads - 1909 - 398 pages
...level as not to deviate more than two degrees from the horizontal, made of wood or iron, on smooth t paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages so they may pass each other in different directions, and they will travel by night as well as by day.... | |
 | Charles Frederick Carter - Railroads - 1909 - 406 pages
...they may pass each other in different directions, and they will travel by night as well as by day. Passengers will sleep in these stages as comfortably as they now do in steam stage boats. Twenty miles un hour is about thirtytwo feet a second, nnd the resistance of the air about... | |
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smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages, so that they may pass each other in different directions, and travel by night as well as by day; and the passengers will sleep in these stages as comfortably as they now do in... 
