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... signal - boxes on this line the eight hours ' duty is an accomplished fact , and the wages all round in this depart- ment have recently been advanced . The clerks , too , em- ployed in many of the railway centres in London and other big ...
... signal - boxes on this line the eight hours ' duty is an accomplished fact , and the wages all round in this depart- ment have recently been advanced . The clerks , too , em- ployed in many of the railway centres in London and other big ...
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... signal which controls the running of his train . But what if he loses his reckoning for one moment , and finds he has already passed the signal which has caused him so much anxiety ; what if , to his horror , he discovers that his train ...
... signal which controls the running of his train . But what if he loses his reckoning for one moment , and finds he has already passed the signal which has caused him so much anxiety ; what if , to his horror , he discovers that his train ...
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... signals until within a few yards of them , and yet is required to keep time with his train - thus he naturally and properly too , I maintain , depends a great deal on the fog - signals to let him know if the road is right or not , and ...
... signals until within a few yards of them , and yet is required to keep time with his train - thus he naturally and properly too , I maintain , depends a great deal on the fog - signals to let him know if the road is right or not , and ...
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... signal - box together . ( < Hallo , " says the signalman as we open the door of his snug little box , this is a ... signals at all , so hurry up , and get to your post . " I , of course , was all the time hurrying up , and so off we went ...
... signal - box together . ( < Hallo , " says the signalman as we open the door of his snug little box , this is a ... signals at all , so hurry up , and get to your post . " I , of course , was all the time hurrying up , and so off we went ...
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... signal , they tell on a small slot whether the signal is on or off , although the signal arms may be 60 or 80 feet above one's head ) , I pro- ceeded with the aid of my hand - lamp to place pieces of white paper , with a large stone ...
... signal , they tell on a small slot whether the signal is on or off , although the signal arms may be 60 or 80 feet above one's head ) , I pro- ceeded with the aid of my hand - lamp to place pieces of white paper , with a large stone ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 30 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands ; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbor, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Página 178 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Página 314 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Página 139 - Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth. And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field.
Página 191 - 7. The engine to be delivered complete for trial, at the Liverpool end of the rail-way, not later than the 1st of October next.
Página 191 - ... in the boiler shall be cold, and there shall be no fuel in the fire-place. As much fuel shall be weighed, and as much water shall be measured and delivered into the...
Página 151 - I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream, forty feet high ; one vessel of water, rarified by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
Página 397 - Therefore, when I say, in conducting your understanding, love knowledge with a great love, with a vehement love, with a love coeval with life, what do I say, but love innocence...
Página 228 - ... should like to have some sense of proprietorship in the shop, or mill, or whatever it may be, in which he passes his days. And it is because the system introduced of late years of co-operative industry meets that natural wish that I look forward to its extension with so much hopefulness.
Página 192 - The time of performing every trip shall be accurately noted, as well as the time occupied in getting ready to set out on the second journey. Should the engine not be enabled to take along with it sufficient fuel and water for the journey of ten trips, the time occupied in taking in a fresh supply of fuel and water shall be considered and taken as a part of the time in performing the journey. JU Rastrick, Esq., Stourbridge, CE Nicholas Wood, Esq., Killingworth, CE John Kennedy, Esq., Manchester. Liverpool,...