Matthew Murray, Pioneer Engineer: Records from 1765 to 1826Ernest Kilburn Scott |
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Page 95 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
Page 94 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 16 - Middleton, to Leeds. This machine is in fact a steam engine of four horses' power, which, with the assistance of cranks turning a cog-wheel, and iron cogs placed at one side of the rail-way, is capable of moving, when lightly loaded, at the speed of ten miles an hour. At four o'clock in the afternoon the machine ran from the...
Page 16 - ... minutes, without the slightest accident. The experiment, which was witnessed by thousands of spectators, was crowned with complete success ; and when it is considered that this invention is applicable to all rail-roads, and that upon the works of Mr. Brandling alone the use of 50 horses will be...
Page 14 - Certain mechanical means, by which the conveyance of coals, minerals, and other articles, is facilitated, and the expense attending the same rendered less than heretofore.
Page 15 - An ingenious and highly interesting experiment was performed in the presence of a vast concourse of spectators, on the railway leading from the collieries of Kenton and Coxlodge, near Newcastle, by the application of a steam-engine, constructed by Messrs.
Page 95 - He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Page 49 - I recollect it very distinctly, and even the sort of framing on which it stood. The machine was not patented, and like many inventions in those days, it was kept as much a secret as possible, being locked up in a small room by itself, to which the ordinary workmen could not obtain access. The year in which I remember it being in use was, so far as I am aware, long before any planingmachine of a similar kind had been invented.
Page 86 - Trevithick was the real inventor of the locomotive. He was the first to prove the sufficiency of the adhesion of the wheels to the rails for all purposes of traction on lines of ordinary gradient, the first to make the return flue boiler, the first to use the steam jet in the chimney and the first to couple all the wheels to the...
Page 86 - ... Iron Works, near Merthyr Tydvil, constructed another engine, the first to be tried on a tram road, where it carried ten tons of iron, seventy men and five wagons a distance of nine and one-half miles at the rate of nearly five miles an hour. On the second of March, in the same year, Trevithick wrote: "We have tried the carriage with twenty-five tons of iron and found we were more than a match for that weight. . .' . The steam is delivered into the chimney above the damper, which makes the draft...