 Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "  Tait's Edinburgh magazine - Page 4591857Full view - About this book
 | Dorothea Beale - 1881 - 152 pages
...Commons to Stephenson, " Suppose now, one of these engines to be going along the railroad at the rate of ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon...and get in the way of the engine ; would not that be very awkward ? " "Yes," replied Stephenson, in his broad dialect, with a twinkle of his eye, "very... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 856 pages
...himeelf to ten miles an hour. ' But assuming this speed,' snid a member of the committee, ' suppose that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance?' 'Yes,' replied the witness, with his strong Northumberland burr,... | |
 | Newcastle upon Tyne (England) - Railroad engineers - 1881 - 170 pages
...a fiery ordeal of questions, but he was equal to the occasion. " Suppose now," said an hon. member, "one of these , engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, aud that a cow were to etray upon the line and get in the way of the engine, would not that, think... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Pan-American Railway - 1881 - 486 pages
...delusion." One pressed him a little closer, asking, " Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray on the line and get in the way, would not that be a very awkward circumstance ?" " Yes," replied Stephenson,... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - Civilization, Anglo-Saxon - 1882 - 514 pages
...examination before the committee that Stephenson, when asked, " Suppose, now, one of your engines to be going at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that...line, and get in the way of the engine, would not that be a very awkward circumstance?" replied, "Yes, very awkward — for the coo." In the course of the... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - Indians of North America - 1882 - 502 pages
...Congreve's rockets as to trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate." " If a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine, would not that be a very awkward circumstance ?" asked a member of Parliament of George Stcphenson. " Yes, very awkward... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd, Thomas Nelson & Sons - 1883 - 168 pages
...to him to show that his plan could not be worked. 6. " Well," asked one, " suppose now one of those engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of...get in the way of the engine, would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ?" — "Yes," answered Stephenson, with a droll twinkle in his... | |
 | Franc Bangs Wilkie - Inventions - 1883 - 700 pages
...which has become famous. " Suppose, now," asked one of the committee, "that one of these engines should be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and a cow were to stray on the track ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance !" " Yes,"... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Artists - 1887 - 632 pages
...during the passing of this act. On one occasion, a member, desiring to throw ridicule upon him, asked, "Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ton miles an hour [the maximum speed at that time generally imagined], and that a cow were to stray... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 892 pages
...suit was brought to recover damages. The engineer of the freight train testified that it was going at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that the whistle was blown, and the bell rung, in the manner usual when approaching the station. The plaintiff... | |
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