Technical World Magazine, Volume 12Technical World Company, 1909 |
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Page 36
... miles . The braking tests were interesting . They made it plain that no man has any right to speed a heavy car along any highway at a rate exceeding twenty or twenty - five miles an hour , for at higher rates of speed it is impossible ...
... miles . The braking tests were interesting . They made it plain that no man has any right to speed a heavy car along any highway at a rate exceeding twenty or twenty - five miles an hour , for at higher rates of speed it is impossible ...
Page 355
... miles between Hector and Field ; the old line but eight miles . But instead of the old grade of 4.5 per cent , a climb of 238 feet to the mile , the new tracks run over the crest at a grade of only 2.2 per cent , 116 feet rise to the mile ...
... miles between Hector and Field ; the old line but eight miles . But instead of the old grade of 4.5 per cent , a climb of 238 feet to the mile , the new tracks run over the crest at a grade of only 2.2 per cent , 116 feet rise to the mile ...
Page 637
... miles , through Hudson straits , five hun- dred miles , across the Atlan- tic and so to Liv- erpool , making a saving of distance over the present routes of 1,000 miles and , calculating financially , about $ 6.40 per acre on land ...
... miles , through Hudson straits , five hun- dred miles , across the Atlan- tic and so to Liv- erpool , making a saving of distance over the present routes of 1,000 miles and , calculating financially , about $ 6.40 per acre on land ...
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In the Stranger Peoples | 605 |
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