Locomotive

Examples

• The electrical features of the 1882 locomotive were very similar to those of the earlier one, already described. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We owe the railroad chiefly to the needs of the north of England, and there we find the real birth of the locomotive. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• To earn his bread he sought and found employment on a railway locomotive. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The moving of passengers and freight seems to be directly related to the progress of civilization, and the factor whose influence has been most felt in this field is the steam locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The principle of the air brake is to store up compressed air in a reservoir on the locomotive by means of a steam pump. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The noise was released, the little locomotive with her clanking steel connecting-rod emerged on the highroad, clanking sharply. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The motor was located in the front part of the locomotive, on its side, with the armature shaft across the frames, or parallel with the driving axles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In 1804, at Pen y Darran, South Wales, a third engine was built, which was the first steam locomotive ever to run on rails. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A substitute for the slow animal, horse, and for the dangerous, noisy steam horse and its lumbering locomotive and train, was hailed with delight. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I believe that the engine driving the four Z generators at the power-house indicated as high as seventy horse-power at the time the locomotive was actually in service. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To stop the locomotive, the armature circuit was opened by the main switch, stopping the flow of current, and then brakes were applied by long levers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was the first commercially successful steamboat ever made, as George Stephenson's was the first commercially successful locomotive. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Fig. 104 is a type of the best modern express locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The 15th of September was the day appointed, and there were eight locomotive engines provided to propel the same number of trains of carriages, which were to form the procession. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In the Hetton Railway, which ran for a part of its distance through rough country, he used stationary engines wherever he could not secure grades that would make locomotives practicable. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Such boilers are adapted for portable stationary engines, locomotives, fire and marine engines, and the fire is built within the boiler frame. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• While he was doing this Stephenson was patiently building new locomotives, and trying to induce the mine-owners along the Tyne to replace their horse-cars with his engines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The vessel then moves forward slowly until it is in the entrance chamber, when lines are thrown out on the other side and connections are made with towing locomotives on the side wall. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At the latter place we got three hundred prisoners, four guns, and destroyed nineteen locomotives and three hundred cars. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The steam blast thrown into the smokestack by Hackworth, the tubular boiler of Seguin and the link motion of Stephenson were then, as they now are, the essential features of locomotives. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He also had the advantage of seeing other primitive locomotives that were being tried at different places near Newcastle. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• After Watt's system was devised, suggestions and experiments as to road locomotives and carriages were made, and other applications came thick and fast. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Stephenson had letters to Mr. Pease, and after a talk with him, persuaded him to go to the Killingworth Colliery and see his locomotives. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Its length was about eight miles, and five of Stephenson’s locomotives were working on it, under the direction of his brother Robert. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is interesting to note that at this point the Grand Trunk now has its St. Clair tunnel, through which the trains are hauled under the river-bed by electric locomotives. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Fig. 83 shows the application of the injector to locomotives, which are now almost universally supplied with this device. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Others had built steam-engines that were almost successful as locomotives, but for one reason or another had never pushed their invention to that point where the world could actually use it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He has built electric locomotives and run them, he has made many discoveries in regard to platinum. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Our locomotives, fire engines, and torpedo boat engines would be of no value without it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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