 | United States - 1888 - 1032 pages
...1825, can be presented than that found in the following extract from ' Wood on Railroads,' 1825 : " Nothing can do more harm to the adoption of railroads, than the promulgation of such nonsense (italic in the original) as that we shall see locomotives traveling at the rate of twelve miles per... | |
 | Thomas Waghorn - Inventions - 1885 - 112 pages
...Stephenson to scorn, and declared that " nothing could do more harm towards the adoption of railways than the promulgation of such nonsense as that we...shall see locomotive engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, and twenty miles an hour" When shall people believe that truth is stranger... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 668 pages
...average five miles an hour. In 1825, a European writer placed the maximum velocity at six, and ridiculed the promulgation of " such nonsense, as that we shall see locomotive engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sateen, eighteen and twenty miles an hour." In 1829, fifteen miles was atained — soon after,... | |
 | Nelson Edward Jones - Frontier and pioneer life - 1897 - 386 pages
...twenty-nine Be was published S author says : "That nothing could do more harm toward the adoption of railways than the promulgation of such nonsense, as that we shall see locomotive engines traveling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, and twenty miles an hour." * This may have been... | |
 | John Alexander Low Waddell - Engineering - 1911 - 588 pages
..."Practical Treatise on Railroads," the standard of 1825, in which the author seriously states that "Nothing can do more harm to the adoption of railroads,...such nonsense as that we shall see locomotive engines traveling at the rate of 12, 16, 18 and 20 miles per hour." Recent books on the subject of flying machines... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland - Civil engineering - 1911 - 580 pages
...only coming into being. In 1825, Mr. Wood, the author of a standard book on railroads, said : — " Nothing can do more harm to the adoption of railroads...the promulgation of such nonsense as that we shall sec locomotive engines travelling at the rate of 12, 16, 18, and 20 miles per hour." Even statesmen... | |
 | John Alexander Low Waddell, John Lyle Harrington - Engineering - 1911 - 514 pages
..."Practical Treatise on Railroads," the standard of 1825, in which the author seriously states that "Nothing can do more harm to the adoption of railroads, than the promulgation of such nonsense a? that we shall see locomotive engines traveling at the rate of 12, 16, 18 and 20 miles per hour."... | |
 | John Alexander Low Waddell, John Lyle Harrington - Engineering - 1911 - 538 pages
...railroads, than the promulgation of such nonsense a? that we shall see locomotive engines traveling at the rate of 12, 16, 18 and 20 miles per hour." Recent books on the subject of flying machines and some other subjects become out-of-date in many of... | |
 | American Society of Civil Engineers - Civil engineering - 1876 - 350 pages
...of such works at that time may be seen by the following extract from "Wood on Railroads " in 1825. " Nothing can do more harm to the adoption of railroads...see locomotive engines travelling at the rate of 12 miles anhour." The first locomotive engine run upon a railroad in the United States was the "Lion,"... | |
 | L. E. Roxbury - Railroad stories - 1962 - 316 pages
...in 1825, can be presented than that found in the following extract from Wood On Railroads in 1825: '"Nothing can do more harm to the adoption of railroads than the promulgation of such nonsense (italic in the original) as that we shall see locomotives traveling at the rate of 12 miles an hour.... | |
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... that nothing could do more harm towards the adoption of railroads than the promulgation of such nonsense, as that we shall see locomotive engines travelling at the rate of 12, 16, 18, and 20 miles an hour. 
