 | United States. Sutro Tunnel Commission - 1872 - 1086 trang
...when he energetically avowed that he could make the locomotive go at the rate of twelve miles an hour. One of the members of the committee pressed the witness a little further, and put the following case: "Suppose, now, one of these engines to he going along a railroad at the... | |
 | United States. Commission upon the Sutro Tunnel (1872) - 1872 - 1062 trang
...when he energetically avowed that he could make the locomotive go at the rate of twelve miles an hour. One of the members of the committee pressed the witness a little further, and put the following case: "Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at tlie... | |
 | Adolph Sutro - 1872 - 104 trang
...when he energetically avowed that he could make the locomotive go at the rate of twelve miles an hour. One of the members of the committee pressed the witness a little further, and put the following case; " Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the... | |
 | John Russell Webb - 1876 - 514 trang
...gravelooking gentleman, thinking to put him down by ridicule, said, " Suppose one of these engines to be going at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line, would not that be a very awkward circumstance ? " " Yes," replied Mr. Stephenson, " very awkward, indeed... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1879 - 464 trang
...a case, would become of the cargo astern. To which the witness replied that it would not be upset. One of the members of the Committee pressed the witness...engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of 9 or 10 miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1879 - 464 trang
...One of the members of the Committee pressed the witness a little CHAP. IX. AWKWARD "FOR THE COO." 165 further. He put the following case : — " Suppose,...engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of 9 or 10 miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 254 trang
...fit for a lunatic asylum. The following case was put before Stephenson : " Suppose, now, one of those engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an-hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine, would not that,... | |
 | William Duncan (of Newcastle) - 1881 - 170 trang
...a fiery ordeal of questions, but he was equal to the occasion. " Suppose now," said an hon. member, "one of these , engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, aud that a cow were to etray upon the line and get in the way of the engine, would not that, think... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1881 - 486 trang
...delusion." One pressed him a little closer, asking, " Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray on the line and get in the way, would not that be a very awkward circumstance ?" " Yes," replied Stephenson,... | |
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Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles .in hour, CHAP. XI. THE CROSS-EXAMINATION. 207 and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be... 
