Locomotives

Examples

• 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.
• Should mankind be seized with a sudden desire to replace all the locomotives in the world by horse power it would be utterly impossible to do it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Car-builders were set to work repairing the locomotives and cars. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It had a small machine shop, and was the point where locomotives were changed for the next section. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then there are steam sanding devices for locomotives by which sand is automatically fed to the rails at the same time the air brake is applied. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The former is the source of energy in locomotives, the latter in most automobiles. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Through an introduction from Mr. Jay Gould, who then controlled the Union Pacific, Edison was allowed to ride on the cow-catchers of the locomotives. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They said the grades were excessive, and it would cost too much to do it with steam locomotives, even if they could climb the grades. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• All the cars and locomotives not carried off had been destroyed as effectually as they knew how to destroy them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In Fig. 39 is shown one of the most powerful electric locomotives ever constructed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1898 the United States exported 468 locomotives, worth $3,883,719. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Stephenson continued to make improvements to his locomotives. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• At the end of the year 1898 there were in use in the United States 36,746 locomotives, 1,318,700 cars, and the mileage in tracks, including second track and sidings, was 245,238. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Most of the early locomotives used in America were imported from England, but our inventors soon commenced making them for themselves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Page, in 1851, built electric locomotives which ran on rails. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Six locomotives are used for the larger vessels, three on each wall of the lock chamber. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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