Gauge Evidence The History And Prospects Of The Railway System By Samuel Sidney 2nd Edition

Author : Samuel Sidney
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334181566
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Gauge Evidence written by Samuel Sidney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-05 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gauge Evidence: The History and Prospects of the Railway System, Illustrated by the Evidence Given Before the Gauge Commission Fortunately they placed the execution of their project under the direction of George Stephenson, at that time one of the most eminent of the colliery engineers; a man whose mechanical genius is of that order that it may, without exaggeration, be asserted, that if Watt had not previously invented the steam engine, he was capable of achieving it. Born in the humblest rank of life, self-educated, endowed with an industry, energy, and indomitable perseverance, which rendered his manifold and eminently practical abilities fully avail able to his employers, he early obtained an inde pendent position, and a high reputation in his pro fession but he might have lived and died unknown beyond the district of his earlier labours, had it not been his well-deserved good fortune to commence and complete a work which, in extent, grandeur, and utility, casts into the shade the proudest monuments of Greece and Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.