Railways

Examples

• In 1854 there were 111 millions of passengers conveyed on railways, each passenger travelling an average of 12 miles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The railways reduced this journey for any ordinary traveller to less than forty-eight hours. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Railways were growing at the rate of nearly one thousand miles annually. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Like considerations would apply to railways, antiseptic surgery, or friction matches. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In a national and in a social point of view, also, railways have produced important improvements. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The wear and tear of the railways was, at the same time, enormous. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The Pacific Railway, the first of our half a dozen transcontinental railways, was completed in 1869. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is curious to note the many kinds of opposition these first railways encountered. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• By the middle of the century a network of railways had spread all over Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• No invention of the present century has produced so great a social change as Steam Locomotion on railways. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Prominent among modern improvements in steam railways is the air brake. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• 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. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It deserves note that at Chicago regular railway tickets were issued to paying passengers, the first ever employed on American electric railways. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Instead of the diminished demand for horses which was apprehended when railways displaced stage coaches, public conveyances have increased a hundredfold. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The cost of constructing these railways had been ￡286,000,000. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Probably the most important branch of engineering work is railroad construction, already considered under steam railways. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• 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. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The railways and early engines of all sorts were the mere first triumphs of the new metallurgical methods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• From 1830 onward railways multiplied. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Among the great inventions of the nineteenth century are the spectroscope, the electric telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the railways, and the steam-ships. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As for the railways--we have none like them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And one form of business which was beginning to breed just then was the construction of railways. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• 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. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• 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. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I got up a slot contact for street railways, and have a patent on it--a sliding contact in a slot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But in spite of all this the people took to riding on the railways and England prospered. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• 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. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• That wasn't for railways to blow you to pieces right and left. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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