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Great Movements and Those who Achieved Them - Page 379
by Henry James Nicoll - 1881 - 456 pages
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Annual Register, Volume 90

Edmund Burke - History - 1849 - 1012 pages
...engine-work. The first locomotive that I made was at Killingworth colliery, and with Lord Ravensworth's money. That engine was made thirty-two years ago, and we called it My Lard. I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works...
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The Living Age, Volume 19

1848 - 640 pages
...Ravensworth and Co. were the first parties that would entrust me with money to make a locomotive engine That engine was made thirty-two years ago, and we called it ' My Lord.' I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand....
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 19

Literature - 1848 - 634 pages
...Ravensworth and Co. were the first parlies that would entrust me with money to make a locomotive engine That engine was made thirty-two years ago, and we called it ' My Lord.' I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand....
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Journal of the Franklin Institute

Meteorology - 1844 - 950 pages
...Ravensworth & Co., were the first parties that would intrust me with money to make a locomotive engine. That engine was made thirty-two years ago, and we called it 'My Lord.' I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such ao engine, provided the works could be made to stand....
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

1845 - 854 pages
...engine. That engine was made 32 years ajfo, and we called it " My Lord." I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand.' A partial f ulure on the Stockton and Darlington line — on which ítíphenson's locomotive was tried,...
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The Institutions of Popular Education: An Essay to which the Manchester ...

Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 376 pages
...money to make a locomotive engine. That engine was made thirty-two years ago. I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand. In this respect great perfection has been reached, and, in consequence, a very high velocity has been...
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Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1845 - 558 pages
...money to make a locomotive engine. That engine was made thirtytwo years ago. I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand. In this respect great perfection has been reached, and, in consequence, a very high velocity has been...
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Local Collections; Or, Records of Remarkable Events, Connected with the ...

1844 - 174 pages
...That engine was made 32 years ago, and we called it My Lord. (Laughter.) I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand. In this respect great perfection has been reached, and in consequence a very high velocity has been...
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The Institutions of Popular Education: An Essay to which the Manchester ...

Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 378 pages
...money to make a locomotive engine. That engine was made thirty-two years ago. I said to my friends that there was no limit to the speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand. In this respect great perfection has been reached, and, in consequence, a very high velocity has been...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 5

American periodicals - 1845 - 636 pages
...«aid to my friends that there was no limit to the »Life of Lord Keeper Guilford, vol. i., p. 265. speed of such an engine, provided the works could be made to stand." A partial failure on the Stockton and Darlington line — on which Stephenson's locomotive was tried,...
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