Download or read book Rail Steam and Speed written by Christopher McGowan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From October 6 through 14, 1829, in a small village just outside Liverpool, England, ten thousand spectators gathered to witness one of the most remarkable events of the Industrial Age: a battle among locomotives that became known as the Rainhill Trials. Five machines were entered in the competition: the horse-powered Cycloped attained a top speed of only five miles per hour, while Perseverence—which looked like a giant iron bottle standing upright atop four wagon wheels—creaked along at a walking pace. But the three-way race between Robert Stephenson's Rocket, Timothy Harworth's Sans Pareil, and the crowd favorite, John Braithwaite and John Ericson's Novelty, astonished the gathered crowds. The unfamiliar clank of machinery, huge billows of steam, and unprecedented speeds of thirty miles per hour thrilled the crowds during the trials'carnival-like atmosphere. The Rocket won the competition, though it had been claimed that the machine was not the superior locomotive. Rail, Steam, and Speed explains why and offers an absorbing account of the trials, people, and science that gave birth to steam locomotion. The purpose of the trials had been to find a locomotive that could maintain a speed of ten miles per hour for a round trip totaling thirty-five miles, the distance separating Liverpool and Manchester, which were soon to be linked by the world's first passenger railway. But what was achieved during those nine days became a benchmark of the Industrial Revolution. Bringing the excitement of this great drama to life, Christopher McGowan introduces us to such pioneers as George Stephenson, who started as a colliery boy and finished as the father of the railways; John Ericsson, a Swedish Army officer who invented a new kind of locomotive in England but spent most of his life in the United States, where he built the Monitor for the Union Navy; and Richard Trevithick, whose eleven-year adventure in South America included winning and losing several fortunes, deserting Bolivar's army, and escaping the jaws of a crocodile. He encountered George Stephenson's son Robert in a Colombian hotel in one of the most bizarre meetings of the age. But the real stars are the locomotives themselves. McGowan shows how locomotives work and how they were developed—from the gargantuan beam engines condensing low-pressure steam inside enormous cylinders to the small, high-pressure-driven engines of the maverick miner Trevithick. He adapted the engines to power road carriages, but atrocious roads led him to build an engine that could run on rails. And so was born the world's first steam locomotive and modern transportation.
Download or read book Railway Locomotion and Steam Navigation written by John Curr and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book William Hedley the Inventor of Railway Locomotion on the Present Principle written by Mark Archer and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Locomotion and Steam Navigation their principles and practice written by John CURR (the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railways and Locomotion Classic Reprint written by W. E. Dickson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Railways and Locomotion It is, perhaps, unnecessary to adduce examples of inventions of which the origin and early history are entirely unknown; we may well suppose some of the arts of life to have been taught to man, not devised by him; we know that the use of skins for clothing was the subject of Divine suggestion. The ark, which may possibly have been the model for the earliest ships, was built by the directions of the Almighty. The common implements of husbandry, the management of horses, the use of wheeled chariots and waggons, the measurement of time, - all these date from a period of the world's history so remote that we are constrained to regard them with a degree of doubt, whether they may not have been born with the mind, rather than discovered by its powers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Romance of Modern Railways written by Thomas W. Corbin and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Hedley written by Mark Archer and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Locomotion written by Oswald Stevens Nock and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Inventor of Railway Locomotion On the Present Principle written by W. HEDLEY and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Railways and Locomotion written by W. E. Dickson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railways and Locomotion by W. E. Dickson. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1854 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Download or read book Loco Motion written by Michael R. Bailey and published by History Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The steam locomotive is a machine that has inspired imagination, innovation and invention from the time of its origination and continues to evoke passion in enthusiasts today.Here Michael R. Bailey, expertly and in fascinating detail, describes the development of the steam locomotive during its pioneering first half-century until 1850 by exploring the surviving locomotives that may be seen in Britain, Europe, and North and South America. In addition to surviving relics, he also takes a look at operable replicas, which fill many gaps in international collections, to provide continuity in this evolutionary story.Exploring in depth each example's operational and preservation history, along with design characteristics, component materials and modifications made, no detail is left unmentioned. With unparalleled detail, incredibly stunning images and a list of museums housing all of the world's oldest locomotives, this truly is a volume that no student of railway history should be without.
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