 | M. John Lubetkin - History - 2006 - 412 pages
...train had no brakes, nor was it able to go up an incline or even make wide curves. A friend wrote: "Nothing can do more harm to the adoption of railroads, than the promulgation of such nonsense that we shall see locomotive engines traveling at a rate of 12, 16, 18, and 20 miles per hour." Four... | |
 | Railroads - 1892 - 272 pages
...reformer. It is well to recall pwt of a speech delivered by an English statesman in the year 1825 : — 1 Nothing can do more harm to the adoption of railroads...shall see locomotive engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, and twenty miles per hour.' In the year 1846 a train weighing fifty-nine... | |
 | Electric engineering - 1885 - 498 pages
...Let me in closing quote one or two of those instances which are now historical. Wood, in 1825, wrote: "Nothing can do more harm to the adoption of railroads...nonsense as that we shall see locomotive" engines traveling at the rate of 12, 16, IB and 20 miles per hour." Dr. Lardner, an eminent English mathematician,... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Patents - 1850 - 650 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, sixteen, eighteen and twenty miles an hour." In 1829, fifteen miles was atained — soon after,... | |
 | Locomotive engineers - 1872 - 588 pages
...Railroads," a»d we find in the радея of that interesting work the following sage reflection : ''Nothing can do more harm to the adoption of railroads than the promulgation of such nonsense, asthat we shall see locomotive engines traveling at the rate •of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, and twenty... | |
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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. 
