 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - 1851 - 700 pagine
...ridiculous expectations — or rather professions — of the enthusiastic speculatist will be realised ; and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense." In thus stating my views on this subject, I beg to disclaim all intention of detracting from the great... | |
 | 1844 - 698 pagine
...world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic specnlatist will be realized, and that we shall see engines travelling...measure not to shock the common sense of the members by stating his expectations of speed higher than ten miles an hour ; and when, under the excitement of... | |
 | 1845 - 636 pagine
...world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculatist will be realized, and that we shall see engines travelling...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense!" Still Stephenson, who knew well what he was about, persisted in asserting the above " nonsense ;" but... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1845 - 472 pagine
...ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculalist, will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense !' " Still Stephenson, who knew well what he was about, persisted in asserting the above 'nonsense;'... | |
 | 1845 - 862 pagine
...rather professions, of the enthusiastic ipecolatist will be realised, and that we shall see entines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen,...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense 1" » Lift of Lori Keeper Oullford, voL ip 8G5. Still Stepheuson, who knew well what he was about,... | |
 | 1845 - 472 pagine
...ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculatist, will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense !' " Still Stephenson, who knew well what he was about, persisted in asserting the above ' nonsense... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1848 - 566 pagine
...experiments are detailed. rale of twelce, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty milea an hour. Nothing couM do more harm towards their general adoption and improvement, than the promulgation of such NONSENSE." It is even stated that when Mr. Stephenson was examined before the committee, by whom his engine was... | |
 | 1850 - 492 pagine
...the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculatist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense." From this we may learn not to place too much confidence on our own anticipations in reference to the... | |
 | John Francis - 1851 - 642 pagine
...be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards...improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense." These opinions were thoroughly justified by the existing state of mechanical science in comparison... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 pagine
...will be realised, or that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their general adoption than the promulgation of such nonsense.' Having now come to the period when the locomotive engine figures... | |
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It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic... 
