This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... as ninety-nine out of every hundred travellers would prefer to travel in a separate passenger carriage rather than to enter one where part of them would actually sit on top of, and others lean their backs against the boiler. And however successful self-contained steam cars may be from a mechanical point of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... as ninety-nine out of every hundred travellers would prefer to travel in a separate passenger carriage rather than to enter one where part of them would actually sit on top of, and others lean their backs against the boiler. And however successful self-contained steam cars may be from a mechanical point of view, it is doubtful whether such machines will ever become popular favourites. "In reference to this, some have remarked that as passengers are not at all afraid to go on board a steamer, which has a boiler below the deck, therefore they will not object to the steam cars; but it must be remembered that in the steamer there are a number of skilled men to constantly attend to the boiler and gear; while the leading idea among the present designers of steam cars seems to be simply to stow away one or more boilers out of sight within the car, and then leave them and the passengers to take care of themselves." Beferring to a means Mr. Todd has invented of working a steam engine in silence, while at all times he is able to regulate the pressure as in a locomotive with the ordinary blast-pipe, he says: "The ordinary blast in the funnel has one great practical advantage and convenience, in that it at all times perfectly regulates the intensity of the draught to the ever varying amount of power that a locomotive gives out. If the engine be going up an incline, the blast becomes very strong, and there is plenty of steam. Again, when descending, the blast is soft, and raises no excess of pressure; so that either in running heavily up or lightly down a gradient, the pressuregauge hardly varies. This one advantage is of such great convenience and utility, that engineers do not like to part with it; they therefore universally adhere to the contracted...
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