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... Common drudges - here as well as other places - Born to command ten thousand Slaves like you . This is too much , but at the same time it is too true , for I find the workmen here to be more ignorant than they are in Eskdale - there's ...
... Common drudges - here as well as other places - Born to command ten thousand Slaves like you . This is too much , but at the same time it is too true , for I find the workmen here to be more ignorant than they are in Eskdale - there's ...
Page 194
... common centre of information for that profession , although its practical nature would suggest the necessity of it . A conviction of the advantages of an Institution of Engineers has , however , now induced a few young men of the ...
... common centre of information for that profession , although its practical nature would suggest the necessity of it . A conviction of the advantages of an Institution of Engineers has , however , now induced a few young men of the ...
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... be propelled by steam on common roads at an average rate of ten miles per hour . 2. That at this rate they have conveyed upwards of fourteen passengers . 3. That their weight , including engine , fuel , 274 THE STORY OF TELFORD.
... be propelled by steam on common roads at an average rate of ten miles per hour . 2. That at this rate they have conveyed upwards of fourteen passengers . 3. That their weight , including engine , fuel , 274 THE STORY OF TELFORD.
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Edinburgh at the beginning of the Twentieth Century I | 8 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
William Jessop Civil Engineer 17451814 | 32 |
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