 | 1811 - 464 oldal
...from one pjace to another. Waggoners must undergo fresh discipline, coachmen must be content to fornj a cavalcade, and our saddle-horses must be trained...determined to cover these oak rails with cast-iron, not altogether as a necessary expedient of improvement, but in part as a well-digested measure of economy... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1835 - 938 oldal
...from the ingenious Hornblower, the rival and contemporary of the celebrated Mr. Watt; who observes: " Railways have been in use in this kingdom time out...timber, and pinned together with the same stuff. But the proprietors of Colebrook-dale Iron Works, a very respectable and opulent company eventually determined... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1836 - 942 oldal
...from the ingenious Homblower, the rival and contemporary of the celebrated Mr. Watt; who observes: " Railways have been in use in this kingdom time out of mind, and they were usually fonned of scantlings of good sound oak, laid on sills or sleepers of the same timber, and pinned together... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1837 - 236 oldal
...from the ingenious Hornblower, the rival and contemporary of the celebrated Mr. Watt; who observes: " Railways have been in use in this kingdom time out...timber, and pinned together with the same stuff. But the proprietors of Colebrook-dale Iron Works, a very respectable and opulent company eventually determined... | |
 | James Day - 1839 - 240 oldal
...from the ingenious Hornblower; the rival and contemporary of the celebrated Watt, who observes — "railways have been in use in this kingdom, time out...timber, and pinned together with the same stuff. But the proprietors of Colebrook-dale Iron Works, a very respectable and opulent company, eventually determined... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1846 - 944 oldal
...published letter of the ingenious Hornblower, the contemporary of the celebrated Watt ; wherein he says, " Railways have been in use in this kingdom time out of mind, and they were usually formed of Kantlings of good sound oak, laid on sills or sleepers of the same timber, and pinned together with... | |
 | James Day - 1848 - 240 oldal
...from the ingenious Hornblower, the rival and contemporary of the celebrated Watt, who observes — " Railways have been in use in this kingdom time out...timber, and pinned together with the same stuff." But the proprietors of Colebrook-dale Iron Works, a very respectable and opulent company, eventually determined... | |
 | Henry Alexander Glass - 1864 - 134 oldal
...their steam-carriages to a railroad. Hornblower, the contemporary of the celebrated "Watt, says : " Railways have been in use in this kingdom time out of mind." They ORIGIN OF IRON ROADS. 79 were generally made of scantlings of oak, and there is a legend that... | |
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Railways have been in use in this kingdom time out of mind, and they were usually formed of scantlings of good sound oak, laid on sills or sleepers of the same timber, and pinned together with the same stuff. 