. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . United States began by slow degrees toadopt gas lighting for the streets, but insome quarters there was fierce oppositionand appalling prejudice. In 1833 several,hundred citizens of Philadelphia signed apetition to the common council protestingagainst the introduction of illuminatinggas into the city. They considered it, theysaid, a most inexpedient, offensive anddangerous mode of lighting. They mighthave added, in accordance with dis-tinguished opinion of today, that gas wasto be condemned b
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . United States began by slow degrees toadopt gas lighting for the streets, but insome quarters there was fierce oppositionand appalling prejudice. In 1833 several,hundred citizens of Philadelphia signed apetition to the common council protestingagainst the introduction of illuminatinggas into the city. They considered it, theysaid, a most inexpedient, offensive anddangerous mode of lighting. They mighthave added, in accordance with dis-tinguished opinion of today, that gas wasto be condemned because it was not usedby the revolutionary fathers. Our Debt to the are that in a few years me-chanical appliances will make the horse avery scarce animal. But the horse hasperformed services to man and to civil-ization greater than any other animal ex-cept perhaps the cow. The horse wasconnected with the ideals no less thanwith the realities of the phase in humanhistory that was called after him—the ageof chivalry. The mental consequences ofthe partnership between man and that. SEVENTY-TON QUADRUPLE HOPPER CARS FOR THE BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN RAILROAD. This is several thousand pounds heavierthan w:ould ordinarily be necessary for aseventy-ton car of ample strength, butthese cars have been built to withstandvery severe service. The cars have acapacity level full of 2,840 cu. ft. and with10-inch average heap of 3,157 cu. ft. Theratio of paying load to total weight ofloaded car is 72^ per cent. The general dimensions of the car areas follows:Length over striking ft. 5 ins. Length over end sills 41 ft. 3/i ins. Length inside of car 40 ft. 0 ins. Introduction of Illuminating Gas. Illuminating gas was first made byWilliam Murdock in 1792 and in 1802 heinstalled a gas plant for lighting thefoundrj of Boulton & Watts engineworks. The introduction of gas for light-ing cities began shortly afterward andmade steady progress in the British Islesand on the contine
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