Railway Economy: An Exposition of the Advantages of Locomotion by Locomotive Carriages Instead of the Present Expensive System of Steam TugsSutherland & Knox, 1849 - 67 páginas |
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... load , nine and a - half tons , at fifteen miles per hour . The immediate successors of the Rocket - the Jupiter , the Vulcan , the Vesta , the Fury , the Leeds , and others , weighed from 7 to 8 tons . The Atlas , made in 1832 ...
... load , nine and a - half tons , at fifteen miles per hour . The immediate successors of the Rocket - the Jupiter , the Vulcan , the Vesta , the Fury , the Leeds , and others , weighed from 7 to 8 tons . The Atlas , made in 1832 ...
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... load and every velocity . No fixed proportion can therefore be named as existing in practice . The resistances of the engine with express trains , ( con- sisting of eight or ten carriages , equal to fifty tons , ) probably absorb 70 per ...
... load and every velocity . No fixed proportion can therefore be named as existing in practice . The resistances of the engine with express trains , ( con- sisting of eight or ten carriages , equal to fifty tons , ) probably absorb 70 per ...
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... Loads in Miles per Tons . Hour . Resistance of Locomotive and Tender alone . Resistance of a weight of ordinary Carriages equiva- lent in weight to that of Locomotive and Tender . Friction and other resistances of Steam Machinery ...
... Loads in Miles per Tons . Hour . Resistance of Locomotive and Tender alone . Resistance of a weight of ordinary Carriages equiva- lent in weight to that of Locomotive and Tender . Friction and other resistances of Steam Machinery ...
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... load , for the same engine ; secondly , that the friction of a small engine is proportionally much greater than that of a large one . The proportion of the total power of the engine involved in Mr. Gooch's estimate of friction of the ...
... load , for the same engine ; secondly , that the friction of a small engine is proportionally much greater than that of a large one . The proportion of the total power of the engine involved in Mr. Gooch's estimate of friction of the ...
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... loads they serve to transport . The average weight of narrow - gauge carriages in Britain , & c . , is very nearly as follows : --- First Class , Composites , Second Class , Tons . Cwts . 4 5 • Capacity . 18 passengers . 4 5 22 99 3 15 ...
... loads they serve to transport . The average weight of narrow - gauge carriages in Britain , & c . , is very nearly as follows : --- First Class , Composites , Second Class , Tons . Cwts . 4 5 • Capacity . 18 passengers . 4 5 22 99 3 15 ...
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