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PROGRESS OF RAILWAY ENGINEERING

... only in a straight and direct course. If it has to change its direction, it roust be through a curve which bends so glowly and gr~adualiv that the part of it occupied at any moment by the car- riage shall not sensibly differ from a straight line. The ...

Published: Friday 30 October 1846
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2301 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

PROFESSOR WILSON

... expression) heave very much I tle appearance of havirig been thrown at him -^ it with a pitchfork ; lie frequently gives his razor tht c a holidlay, and the locks-few, alas, which time ten id iras left iini-stream over his ample sboulcers, p 'r guiltless ...

Published: Monday 21 December 1840
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1783 | Page: 4 | Tags: News