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Identifier: historyofallnati18wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Views of the first railway in England. Fronn the illustrations of a contennporary English work on this railway.Built l)y George Stephcuson. Openod September 15. 1830. Length of tbe track. 35 English miles. Kails, 15 feet loiig,2 inches wide, and 1 inch tliit-k. Doiiblu tracks with 4 feet H inches betweenthem. Eighteen miles lay on stone ties, 13 on oak or larch ties. The road passed over 63 bridges, and a viaduct of 9 arches, each of whidi bad a »pan of 51) feet, and through a tunnel 2210 yards long.S2 feet wide, and 16 feet high. The cost was about £1,000,000. With the engine Northumbrian the train covered the distance in one hour and tifty minutes; in the year l«.n. wilb the Mercury,in sixty-seven minutes. The price in the better-class coaches, such as the Queen Adelaide and the WeUington, was five shillings.Hittorji of All yiUiun». Vul. A* IlJI., pane So. =: V.
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IS of a contemporai-y Englisli work on ihis railw£>y. Kails, 15 feet long, 2 inches wide, and 1 ineli thick. Doiihlc tracks with 4 feet ^ inches In-twecn»duct of 9 arches, each of which liad a span of K) feet, and throURh u tunnel •i-MO yards long,n covered the distance in one hour and fifty minutes: in the year IKil, with the Mercury.llington, was five shillings. ECONOMIC DISTRESS IN ENGLAND. 87 a nnineroiis laboring proletariat, who saw themselves threatenedwith want and hunger on every interrupti(jn of the market. For thelirst time England was called to meet this experience, innnediately onthe close of the great war, when, instead of the expected blessings ofpeace, a very painful economic catastrophe made its appearance.For, inasmuch as the Continental embargo was done away witii, thespeculative madness of English industry overwhelmed the markets ofthe entire Continent with an excess ofmanufactures. Upon overproductionfollowed inevitably cessation of sales,lowering of prices

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  • booksubject:World_history
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