 | 1844 - 490 pages
...The average incline is one in one hundred; the exhaustion has been extended to twenty-two and a half inches of mercury, and three carriages loaded with passengers have been propelled up the incline at a speed exceeding forty miles an hour. — Year- Book of Facts, PERSEVERANCE. NEWTON is said to have... | |
 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - 1844 - 324 pages
...Kingstown Railway, the pipe is 15 inches in diameter, and its length, so far as it has been tried, is one mile and a quarter. The average incline is 1 in 1 00 ; the exhaustion has been extended to 22 J inches of mercury, and three carriages loaded with... | |
 | Handbook - 1846 - 130 pages
...Kingstown railway, the pipe is fifteen inches in diameter, and the length, so far as it has been tried, is one mile and a quarter. The average incline is...have been propelled up the incline, at the rate of above forty miles an hour. Admitting, then, the practicability of the atmospheric system, the advantages... | |
 | 458 pages
...twenty miles an hour. On the Dalkey branch of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the tube is fifteen inches in diameter, and the length is one mile and...incline is 1 in 100. The exhaustion has been extended to 22J inches of mercury ; and three carriages loaded with passengers have been propelled up the incline,... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1853 - 390 pages
...Kingstown Railway, the pipe is 15 inches in diameter, and its length, so far as it has been tried, is one mile and a quarter. The average incline is 1 in 100 ; the exhaustion has been extended to 22 j NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. "A stationary engine of 110-horse power would, it is stated, be adequate to exhaust... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1861 - 594 pages
...Kingstown Railway, the pipe is 15 inches in diameter, and its length, so far as it has been tried, is one mile and a quarter. The average incline is...with passengers have been propelled up the incline at a speed exceeding 40 miles an hour. A stationary engine of 110-horse power would, it is stated, be... | |
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Railway, the pipe is 15 inches in diameter, and its length, so far as it has been tried, is one mile and a quarter. The average incline is 1 in 100; the exhaustion has been extended to 22... 