Railways

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• In 1854 there were 111 millions of passengers conveyed on railways, each passenger travelling an average of 12 miles. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• The railways reduced this journey for any ordinary traveller to less than forty-eight hours. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Railways were growing at the rate of nearly one thousand miles annually. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• Like considerations would apply to railways, antiseptic surgery, or friction matches. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
• In a national and in a social point of view, also, railways have produced important improvements. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• The wear and tear of the railways was, at the same time, enormous. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• The Pacific Railway, the first of our half a dozen transcontinental railways, was completed in 1869. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• It is curious to note the many kinds of opposition these first railways encountered. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• By the middle of the century a network of railways had spread all over Europe. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• I said we had eighty thousand convicts employed on the railways in America--all of them under sentence of death for murder in the first degree. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• No invention of the present century has produced so great a social change as Steam Locomotion on railways. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• Prominent among modern improvements in steam railways is the air brake. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• The traffic returns for the week ending the 25th of September, 1858, amounted to ￡502,720; and the gross receipts of the railways in 1857 were ￡24,174,610. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• It deserves note that at Chicago regular railway tickets were issued to paying passengers, the first ever employed on American electric railways. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• Instead of the diminished demand for horses which was apprehended when railways displaced stage coaches, public conveyances have increased a hundredfold. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• The cost of constructing these railways had been ￡286,000,000. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• Probably the most important branch of engineering work is railroad construction, already considered under steam railways. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• To study this he made an instrument called the dynamometer, which enabled him to calculate the resistance of friction to which carriages would be exposed on railways. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• The railways and early engines of all sorts were the mere first triumphs of the new metallurgical methods. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• From 1830 onward railways multiplied. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Among the great inventions of the nineteenth century are the spectroscope, the electric telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the railways, and the steam-ships. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• As for the railways--we have none like them. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• And one form of business which was beginning to breed just then was the construction of railways. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• At that time the railways were laid in the most careless fashion, little attention was paid to the rails’ proper joining, and less to the grades of the roads. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• In forming the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the guage of the railways in the collieries was adopted, and the width between the rails was made 4 feet 8? inches. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• I got up a slot contact for street railways, and have a patent on it--a sliding contact in a slot. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• A third system, which has supplanted to some extent the use of steam on short line railways, is the so-called third rail system, of which an example is seen in Fig. 36. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• But in spite of all this the people took to riding on the railways and England prospered. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• Without railways, the penny post could not have been established, because the old mail coaches would have been unable to carry the mass of letters and newspapers that are now transmitted. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• That wasn't for railways to blow you to pieces right and left. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.

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