Bill Hambrecht | A venture capitalist named | has attempted to devise a method that can reduce the inefficient process. ... |
prime mover | ... rottle valve that regulates the flow of working fluid (steam) supplying the | (prime mover not shown). As the speed of the prime mover increases, the ce ... |
Planet | ... soon superseded by improved designs, such as Stephenson's Northumbrian and | designs, both of 1830 |
Salamanca | ... regularly hauled a payload of ninety tons. The first were Prince Regent and | , built in 1812, then Willington (1813) and Marquis Wellington (1814). Sim ... |
Little Joe | ... es a theater, antique and automobile museums, and a former Milwaukee Road " | " electric locomotive |
0-2-2 | Rocket was followed by a number of other engines of similar | layout with rear-mounted cylinders built for the L&MR before it opened in ... |
Blücher | ... ng engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway, and named | after the Prussian general Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. It was construct ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... ass steam locomotive No. 4496 (renumbered 60008) Golden Shuttle was renamed | in 1946. It is preserved at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wis ... |
British Rail Class D16/1 | ... a contraction of the LMS 'Black And Silver Livery' as applied to the 1940s | diesel locomotives 10000 and 10001, a photograph of which is featured in t ... |
Rocket | ... mprovements to the station. At the event a full-size working replica of the | was on show, which then spent two days on public display at the Chesterfie ... |
Planet | ... y after Rocket, still had them at an angle. The successful 2-2-0 locomotive | (1830) had internal front-mounted cylinders set to the horizontal |
Locomotives of the Midland Railway | ... able was the continuation of the Midland Railway's small-engine policy (see | ) |
Novelty | ... the fire-tube area had also been attempted with Ericsson and Braithwaite's | at Rainhill. Their design though used a single fire-tube, folded in three. ... |
2-2-2 | Engines built to the Planet design and the subsequent | Patentee design of 1833 made the design of Rocket obsolete |
Invicta | ... tephenson experimented with front-mounted cylinders. The unsuccessful 0-4-0 | , built in 1829 immediately after Rocket, still had them at an angle. The ... |
Rocket | ... to travel along the track for a total distance of . Stephenson's entry was | , and its performance in winning the contest made it famous. George's son ... |
Lancashire Witch | ... comotive boilers consisted of a single pipe surrounded by water (though the | did have twin flues). Rocket had 25 copper fire-tubes running the length o ... |
Stephenson's Rocket | ... n Newcastle and surrounding areas included the development of safety lamps, | , Lord Armstrong's artillery, Be-Ro flour, Joseph Swan's electric light bu ... |
Lancashire Witch | ... the Killingworth locomotive Blücher (1814); Locomotion No 1 (1825); and the | (1828) |