| Science - 1876 - 348 pages
...globe ; and at present different countries possess in the aggregate about 160,000 miles of railway. Railways add enormously to the national wealth. More...which I was the engineer, and which then formed the prmcipal railway connexion between the popuous towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, effected a saving... | |
| Science - 1875 - 884 pages
...of Stephenson will be forgotten, whose practical genius made the realization of the idea possible. Railways add enormously to the national wealth. More...to the satisfaction of a committee of the House of Commons, that the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway effected a saving to the public using the railway... | |
| English literature - 1875 - 686 pages
...globe; and at present different countries possess in the aggregate about 160,000 miles of railway. " Railways add enormously to the national wealth. More...engineer, and which then formed the principal railway connexion between the populous towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, effected a saving to the public using... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1875 - 870 pages
...that in the course of a very few years this quantity, large as it is, will be very greatly exceeded. Railways add enormously to the national wealth. More...proved to the satisfaction of a committee of the House ol Commons, from facts and figures which I then adduced, that the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway,... | |
| 1875 - 348 pages
...it is, will be very greatly exceeded. Railways add enormously to the national wealth. More than 25 years ago it was proved to the satisfaction of a committee of the House of Commons, from fads and fleures which I then adduced, that the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, of which I was the... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1876 - 886 pages
...will be very greatly exceeded. Railways add cnoimously to the national wealth. More than twenty-fhv years ago it was proved to the satisfaction of a committee...engineer, and which then formed the principal railway connexion between the populous towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, effected a saving to the public using... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1876 - 908 pages
...will be very greatly exceeded. Eailways add enormously to the national wealth. More than twenty -five years ago it was proved to the satisfaction of a committee-...the House of Commons, from facts and figures which I Ihcn adduced, that the Lancashire and Yorkshire Eailway, of which I was the engineer, and which then... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - 942 pages
...the despotic character of the Court, we may note in passing that in 1688, the year of the Revolution, it was proved to the satisfaction of a committee of the House of Commons, that in the small town of Wallingford a number of soldiers had entered the town at the time... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1885 - 706 pages
...the despotic character of the Court, we may note in passing that in 1688, the year of the Revolution, it was proved to the satisfaction of a committee of the House of Commons, that in the small town of Wallingford a number of soldiers had entered the town at the time... | |
| Science - 1876 - 806 pages
...of Stephenson will be forgotten, whose practical genius made the realization of the idea possible. Railways add enormously to the national wealth. More...to the satisfaction of a committee of the House of Commons, that the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway effected a saving to the public using the railway... | |
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