 | Elijah Galloway - Steam-engines - 1829 - 890 pages
...brought into requisition, and made subservient to the great work. The friction of the carriages was to be reduced so low, that a silk thread would draw them, and the power to be applied was so vast as to rend a cable asunder. Hydrogen gas and high-pressure steam, columns of water and columns... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1831 - 514 pages
...assistance; England, America, and Continental Europe, were »like tributary. Every element, and almost every substance, were brought into requisition, and...would draw them, and the power to be applied was to he so vast as to rend a cable asunder. Hydrogen i;« s and high-pressure steam — columns of water... | |
 | John Francis (of the Bank of England.) - Railroads - 1851 - 332 pages
...were brought into requisition and made subservient to the great work. The Iriction of carriages was to be reduced so low that a silk thread would draw them, and the power to be applied was so vast as to rend a cable asunder. Hydrogen gas and high-pressure steam; columns of water and columns... | |
 | John Francis - Railroads - 1851 - 642 pages
...were brought into requisition and made subservient to the great work. The friction of carriages was to be reduced so low that a silk thread would draw them, and the power to be applied waa to vast as to rend a cable asunder. Hydrogen gas and high-pressure steam ; columns of water nd... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - Great Britain - 1881 - 506 pages
...was brought into requisition and made subservient to the great work. The friction of carriages was to be reduced so low that a silk thread would draw them, and the power to be applied was so vast as to rend a cable asunder. Hydrogen gas and high-pressure steam ; columns of water and columns... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - Civilization, Anglo-Saxon - 1882 - 514 pages
...was brought into requisition and made subservient to the great work. The friction of carriages was to be reduced so low that a silk thread would draw them, and the power to be applied was so vast as to rend a cable asunder. Hydrogen gas and high -pressure steam ; columns of water and columns... | |
 | Christopher McGowan - Technology & Engineering - 2004 - 410 pages
...described by Henry Booth (1789-1869), the company's treasurer: The friction of the carriages was to be reduced so low that a silk thread would draw them, and the power to be applied so vast as to rend a cable asunder. Hydrogen gas and high-pressure steam - columns of water and columns... | |
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... so vast as to rend a cable asunder. Hydrogen gas and high-pressure steam; columns of water and columns of mercury ; a hundred atmospheres, and a perfect vacuum ; machines working in a circle without fire or steam, generating power at one end of the... 