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Title: An account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway : comprising a history of the parliamentary proceedings preparatory to the passing of the act, a description of the railway in an excursion from Liverpool to Manchester, and a popular illustration of the mechanical principles applicable to railways, also an abstract of the expenditure from the commencement of the undertaking with observations on the same
Year: 1830 (1830s)
Authors: Booth, Henry, 1788-1869 Theremin, M Dibner, Bern C.E. Rappaport (Firm) DSI
Subjects: Liverpool and Manchester Railway Railroads
Publisher: Liverpool : Printed by Wales and Baines and sold by them ... Manchester : Bancks and Co. Edinburgh : Cadell and Co. London : Hurst, Chance and Co.
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* Novelty and the* Rocket excited universal surprise and admiration.The trial of these Engines, indeed, may be regardedas constituting a new epoch in the progress of me-chanical science, as relating to locomotion. The mostsanguine advocates of travelling Engines had notanticipated a speed of more than ten to twelve milesper hour. It was altogether a new spectacle, tobehold a carriage crowded with company, attachedto a self-moving machine, and whirled along at thespeed of thirty miles per hour. The contest for thepremium was principally between the ** Novelty andthe * Rocket This latter Engine was the first toimdertake the task assigned by the Judges, as a testof the Engines power. The distance appointed to berun was seventy miles; and it was a condition, thatwhen fairly started, the Engine should travel on theroad at a speed of not less than ten miles per hour,drawing after it a gross weight of 3 tons for everyton weight of itself. The prescribed distance it should, SOCKET, LOCOMOTIVE
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  • bookpublisher:_Manchester___Bancks_and_Co__
  • bookpublisher:_Edinburgh___Cadell_and_Co__
  • bookpublisher:_London___Hurst__Chance_and_Co_
  • bookcontributor:Duke_University_Libraries
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