Blackett
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Examples
- Among them was the owner of a colliery in the north named Blackett, who built a number of engines for propelling coal-cars and used them at his mines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The engines that Mr. Blackett had built, using Trevethick’s model as a basis, were working daily near the Killingworth Colliery, and Stephenson frequently went over to see them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In England, Blackett and George Stephenson discovered that the adhesion of smooth wheels to smooth rails was sufficient. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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