 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 four...  James Watt and the Steam Engine - Sivu 1261899 - 192 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1832 - 426 sivua
...river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky caris are made with four rollers, fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an int. menre benefit to the coal merchant." Iron tracks along the surface under a moderate... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1832 - 834 sivua
...river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rollers, fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchant." Iron tracks have since been substituted and... | |
 | Robert Ritchie - 1846 - 492 sivua
...draw greater loads. A description is given of a railway in 1766, then in use near Newcastle-on-Tyne, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coals. For more than a century these railways were made of the most simple construction. A flat rail... | |
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - 1852 - 430 sivua
...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 four or five chaldrons of coals, and is of immense benefit to the coal merchants."* The advantage here resulted from the hard,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 584 sivua
...the river, exactly strait and parallel, and bulky carts are made with rowlcts, fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coal, and it is of immense benefit to the coal merchants." These wooden roads became very common in coal... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 582 sivua
...the rirer, exactly strait and parallel, and bulky cart« are made with rowlets, fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or live chaldrons of coal, and it is of immense benefit to the coal merchants." These wooden roads became... | |
 | Thomas Osmond Summers - 1856 - 200 sivua
...it as a motive-power. But when the union had been established between the rail and the steamengine, time only was required to extend the system, which...expense of restitution, iron was proposed, and in 1738 experiments were made upon cast-iron rails at Whitehayen, -but they were not at that time adopted.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1859 - 312 sivua
...river exactly, straight and parallel : and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy, that one horse will draw four or five chaldrou of coals — and is an immense benefit to the coalmerchants." Cast-iron rails date a century... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 536 sivua
...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 four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchant." * The population of Cumberland... | |
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