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... themselves to the assumption of any kind of risk. Risk is the coal in the various locomotives of the economy, whether local, national, or global. ... ...estore their psychodynamic equilibrium. These politicians and bureaucrats "let off steam" by looting. Kleptomaniacs fail to resist or control the i... ... houseboy, in the hope that he will get an education." A solution recently gaining steam is to provide families in poor countries with access to lo... ...ttes spinning up over the lid. In the XIXth century the automaton is the glorified steam motor, that burns combustible fuel instead the glycogen of... ...dback loop. In fact, this mechanism was known as early as the XVIII century. Watts' steam engine used a centrifugal regulator based on feedback. Als...

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...and waterways: total navigability 1,200 km; chiefly Amu Darya, which handles steamers up to about 500 metric tons Pipelines: natural gas, 180 km Ports... ... waterways: 6,675 km total (includ- ing Saimaa Canal); 3,700 km suitable for steamers Pipelines: natural gas, 161 km Ports: 11 major, 34 minor Civil a... ...terways: 460 km, navigable by small oceangoing vessels and river and coastal steamers; 3,300 km possibly naviga- ble by native craft Ports: 1 major (C... ...cations Railroads: 953 km, all 1.067-meter gauge; 32 km double track; diesel locomotives gradually replacing steam engines Highways: 32,250 km total; ... ....067-meter gauge; 32 km double track; diesel locomotives gradually replacing steam engines Highways: 32,250 km total; 6,084 km concrete or bituminous ... ...0 because of Iran-Iraq war); Tigris and Euphrates navigable by shallow-draft steamers (of little importance); Shatt al Basrah canal navigable by shall... ...adougou, Burkina Faso, line, all single track 1.000-meter gauge; only diesel locomotives in use Highways: 46,600 km total; 3,600 km bituminous and bit...

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...FROM THE PAST 70 argued. The light hit the water and sent up boiling steam. We smelled something. Stripping, I swam where the light had hit the... ...e his oar,” Luke said and laughed. He was drying by the fire, his clothes steaming. He explained that they had been blown first one way and then ano... ...ers, priests, merchantmen and their families. An ox was roasted—and as it steamed and smoked— walkers clustered around the carcass as if it were Holl... ...r the fireplace, stamping and shaking out their coats; boots and leggings steamed. Grinning, Raleigh lit his pipe, a dozen men around our table, elb... ...s...a whole cloud of them.” Willie’s favorite topic was the railroad, the locomotives. He knew every type VOICES FROM THE PAST 534 of engine,...

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... The answer is Carbon. We only eat meat when it is browned and carbonized. Steamed or boiled meat that is not browned and blacked we don’t like a... ... browned and blacked we don’t like as much We generally turn our noses up at steamed or boiled meat in preference to a nicely browned piece of roas... ...piece of roasted browned meat which has been slightly carbonized. Even though steamed meat is much more nutritious and healthier than carbonized mea... ... each other. The Iron Age plows of India pulled by draft animals mingle with steam engines, internal combustion engines and jet engines. Modern ar... ...ecause there will be no specialized bone breakers to get up a 20-yard head of steam, and no 400-lb monsters to fall on top of somebody. Talk ab... ... blackened and yellowed with age. Browned, rotting. Falling apart. Steam locomotives: Black coal fueling huge iron engines… whitewashing their d... .... Turning black coal into white steam. Turning black oil into diesel powered locomotives. Oil refineries… turning black oil into transparent gasol...

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...town with a very long street, beginning with an abattoir and ending with a steam boat, which it seemed our fate to behold only at daybreak on win ter... ...ne to render the visitor an object of humiliation. In the first place, the steamer no sooner touches 34 Reprinted Pieces the port, than all the passe... ..., even to effect this, on pay ment of a shilling a week to the keepers of steamboat piers and other such places, you must be able, besides, to give o... ... nicety, we may know from their rash exposure of themselves in overcrowded steamboats, and unsafe conveyances and places of all kinds. And I cannot he... ...I went from Westminster to the T emple, one Thursday afternoon, in a cheap steamboat. The sky was black, when I imprudently walked on board. It began ... ..., whether of boys or men. Well! the railway has swallowed up ours, and the locomotives now run smoothly over its ashes. So fades and languishes, grows...

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............................... 60 6 American Notes When the “City of Pekin” steamed through the Golden Gate, I saw with great joy that the block-house ... ...hemselves with the public affairs of the city or state as rake muck with a steam-shovel. It may be that their lofty disdain covers self- ishness, but ... ...lker, ex- plained to me after the affair that he was compelled to blow off steam. Everybody expected it. When we had chanted “The Star Spangled Banner... ... envy. We returned from The Dalles to Portland by the way we had come, the steamer stopping en route to pick up a night’s catch of one of the salmon w... ...ish and forgot the mountain scenery that had so moved us a day before. The steamer halted at a rude wooden warehouse built on piles in a lonely reach ... ...ront of Buffalo, where the steamers bellow to the grain elevators, and the locomotives yell to the coal-shutes, and the canal barges jostle the lumber...

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... compared with most travellers) had been, like many others, carried on the steam winds and the iron tides through that Junction before, without having... ...s broke off. Then, a struggling horse became involved with them. Then, the locomotives shared the bits of trains, and ran away with the whole. “I have... ... deprivation. “And those threads of railway, with their puffs of smoke and steam changing places so fast, make it so lively for me,” she went on. “I t... ...from it, and he put it aside. “Tell me. Did you see the puffs of smoke and steam made by the morning fast-train yesterday on road number seven from he... ... at first—that she had not had before; whether she saw those very puffs of steam and smoke that he saw, as he sat in the train thinking of her; whethe... ... Refreshmenting games than he dares to jump a top of a locomotive with her steam at full pressure, and cut away upon her alone, driving himself, at li...

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...y T elegraph: From London to Suez via Mont Cenis and Brindisi, by rail and steamboats ................. 7 days From Suez to Bombay, by steamer .......... ...utta, by rail ................... 3 “ From Calcutta to Hong Kong, by steamer ..........13 “ From Hong Kong to Yokohama (Japan), by steamer 6 “... ...ong to Yokohama (Japan), by steamer 6 “ From Yokohama to San Francisco, by steamer ..... 22 “ From San Francisco to New York, by rail ............... ... ...cisco to New York, by rail ............... 7 “ From New York to London, by steamer and rail .... 9 “ T otal ............................................ ... not to exceed it, you must jump mathemati- cally from the trains upon the steamers, and from the steam- ers upon the trains again.” “I will jump—math... ... 23rd of October, 1867, by the chief engineer, General Dodge. Two powerful locomotives, carrying nine cars of invited guests, amongst whom was Thomas ... ...efore. Phileas Fogg then ordered a special train. There were several rapid locomotives on hand; but the rail- way arrangements did not permit the spec...

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...with engineering since he took a taste for it and him and the Major making Locomotives out of parasols broken iron pots and cotton-reels and them abso... ...en nods at me. “Mrs. Lirriper sir” says the Major going off into a perfect steam and introducing me with his hand. “Pleasure of knowing her” says Mr. ... ...— ” Mr. Buffle begins very angry with his pen in his mouth, when the Major steaming more and more says “Take your bit out sir! Or by the whole inferna... ...hat the Major had been out to get a little information about railroads and steamboats, as our boy was coming home for his Midsummer holidays next day ...

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...s to the Gulf water from fifty four subordinate rivers that are navigable by steamboats, and from some hundreds that are navigable by flats and keels.... ...ful to promises and duty, and often picturesquely magnanimous. By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued... ...wenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream busi ness, the keelboatmen selling thei... ...ing their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers. But after a while the steamboats so increased in number and in ... ...nent death. The keelboatman became a deck hand, or a mate, or a pilot on the steamer; and when steamer berths were not open to him, he took a berth on... ...the wholesome and practical nineteenth century smell of cotton factories and locomotives; and traces of its inflated language and other windy humbugge...

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... a swing at Peckham Fair, which acted on her constitution instantly like a steam boat. Mrs. William may be taken off her balance by Fire; as on a fals... ... more than ten years old), were as well known as the hoarse panting of the locomotives, running in and out. His juvenility might have been at some los...

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...ked he listened for the first breakfast-bell 8 Captains Courageous on the steamer, wondering why his state-room had grown so small. Turning, he looke... ...full of lumps and nubbles. Then, too, the boat’ s motion was not that of a steamer. She was neither slid- ing nor rolling, but rather wriggling hersel... ... baound (we mistrust it’ s Europe)?” Harvey gave his name, the name of the steamer, and a short history of the accident, winding up with a de- mand to... ...all abaout your dad an’ your ma an’ your money afterwards.” “She’ s on the steamer,” said Harvey, his eyes flling with tears. “Take me to New York at ... ... deef.” “Checkers, weren’t it?” said Dan, as Harvey staggered aft with the steaming coffee in a tin pail. “That lets us out o’ cleanin’ up to-night. D... ...hers and crews of every one of those said trains must be notified. Sixteen locomotives, sixteen engineers, and sixteen firemen would be needed-each an...

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...rtos, Presley was sud- denly aware of the faint and prolonged blowing of a steam whistle that he knew must come from the railroad shops near the depot... ...d, drawing long breaths that were punctuated by the sub- dued sound of its steam-pump clicking at exact intervals. But evidently it had been decreed t... ...gain, in his imagina- tion, the galloping monster, the terror of steel and steam, with its single eye, cyclopean, red, shooting from horizon to horizo... ...and to the west, was all one hold- ing, a principality ruled with iron and steam, bullied into a yield of three hundred and fifty thousand bushels, wh... ...to her heart. At such moments she saw very plainly the galloping terror of steam and steel, with its single eye, cyclopean, red, shooting from horizon... ...de the trip. And upon the street-railway cars, upon the ferryboats, on the locomotives and way-coaches of the local trains, she was reminded of her fa...

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...he course of completion, and of these seventy-five are ironclad or armored steamers. The events of the war give an increased interest and importance ... ...s taken place in naval vessels and naval warfare since the introduction of steam as a motive power for ships of war demands either a corresponding cha... ...gallantry exhibited by him in the engagement with the rebel armed ironclad steamer Fingal, alias Atlanta, whilst in com- mand of the United States iro... ...r Fingal, alias Atlanta, whilst in com- mand of the United States ironclad steamer W eehawken, which led to her capture on the 17th June, 1863, and al... ...N, Secretary of War . SIR:—Y ou are directed to have a transport (either a steam or sailing vessel, as may be deemed proper by the Quartermas- ter-Gen... ...elegraphs from Richmond that of railroad stock he found there twenty-eight locomotives, forty-four pas- senger and baggage cars, and one hundred and s...

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...-yard at Boston to purchase or charter and arm as quickly as possible five steamships for pur- poses of public defense. I directed the commandant of t... ...dozen of our own prisoners taken there a week ago, 150 of the en- emy, two locomotives, and eleven cars, some other property and stores, and saved the... ...ilt, of New Y ork, gratuitously pre- sented to the United States the ocean steamer V anderbilt, by many esteemed the finest merchant ship in the world... ...much more than one fourth as far as Liberia, and within seven days’ run by steamers. Unlike Liberia, it is a great line of travel—it is a highway. The... ... this age for one people, what- ever they might have been in former ages. Steam, telegraphs, and intelligence have brought these to be an advantageou... ...a collision took place off the coast of Cuba between the United States war steamer San Jacinto and the French brig Jules et Marie, resulting in seriou... ...been at Ashland, Hanover Court-House, and other points, destroying several locomotives and a good deal of other property, and all the railroad bridges...

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...y body. I lit up at once, and by the time I had got a good head of reserved steam on, here they came. All together, too; none of those chivalrous mag... ...ecture, I thought, but it didn’t disturb Sandy , didn’t turn a feather; her steam soared steadily up again, the minute I took off the lid: “Then Sir ... ...— to Sandy — I must keep my superstitions about unenchanted and unmiraculous locomotives, balloons, and telephones, to myself. Also, I believed that t... ...noses. Yes, it was a neat thing, very neat and pretty to see. It resembled a steamboat explosion on the Mississippi; and dur ing the next fifteen min... ...rance business started, and was also training some horses and building some steam fire engines, with an eye to a paid fire department by and by. The... ...iter, the sewing machine, and all the thousand willing and handy servants of steam and electricity were working their way into favor. We had a steambo...

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...uted that Khartoum the accursed one was dead,—was dead,—was dead,—that two steamers were rock- staked on the Nile outside the city, and that of all th... ...t down to the shipping to make friends with the captain of a decayed cargo-steamer, who landed him in London with fewer pounds in his pocket than he c... ...out twenty-five thousand very seasick little pigs, when our old tramp of a steamer fell foul of a timber-junk. Now, taking those pigs as a parallel—’ ... ...at had opened the fog drove across Dick’s face the black smoke of a river- steamer at her berth below the wall. He was blinded for the moment, then sp... ... not prepared, however, for the change in his face as he listened. ‘It’s a steamer,’ he said,—’a twin-screw steamer, by the beat. I can’t make her out... ...ncum- bered with the material and wastage of the Suakin- Berger line, from locomotives in disconsolate frag- ments to mounds of chairs and pot-sleeper...

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...an, oughtn’t to talked about Zilla way I did.” “Rats, old man, it lets off steam.” “Oh, I know! After spending all noon sneering at the conventional s... ... factories stained with tar, high-perched water-tanks, big red trucks like locomotives, and, on a score of hectic side- tracks, far-wandering freight-... ...ly insulted, or anything save dumpy and defenseless and flushed to the red steaminess of a boiled beet. “Of course I do! I just meant—” Remembering th... .... Again, “What would you hit for on the other side, Paul?” Scowling at the steamer, his breast heaving, Paul whis- pered, “Oh, my God!” While Babbitt ... ... watching the Advocate- Times bulletin-board. He stood in the thickest and steami- est of the crowd, and as the boy up on the lofty platform recorded ... ...heeled about miraculous electrical massage- machines. The barbers snatched steaming towels from a machine like a howitzer of polished nickel and disda...

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...he about-to-bedismissed. “What do I care for your honour? Go and work on a steamer. That is all you are fit for.” The little cluster of huts where he ... ...ut”). Findlayson laughed and then sighed. It was years since he had seen a steamer, and he was sick for home. As his trolley passed under the tower, P... ...ondon.” “He told me that the first time he went into the engine- room of a steamer, when he was a boy, he prayed to the low- pressure cylinder.” “Not ... ...nates as they ran or paused by the tool-issue sheds for bars and mattocks; locomotives creeping down their tracks wheel-deep in the crowd; till the br... ...orking hard.” From across the river came an almost continuous whistling of locomotives, backed by the rumble of stone. Hitchcock at the last minute wa... ...Hitchcock Sahib would not trust a rowboat. He has borrowed the Rao Sahib’s steam launch, and comes to look for us. I have always said that there shoul... ...and comes to look for us. I have always said that there should have been a steam- launch on the bridge works for us.” The territory of the Rao of Bara... ...dly in the roundhouse. One man, in a dingy jersey, said that he hadn’t any locomotives to waste on the yard. Another man, with a piece of crumpled pap... ...he other man waved his arms, and wanted to know if he was expected to keep locomotives in his hip-pocket. Then a man in a black Prince Albert, with- o...

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...about-to-be-dis- missed. “What do I care for your honour? Go and work on a steamer. That is all you are fit for.” The little cluster of huts where he ... ...ut”). Findlayson laughed and then sighed. It was years since he had seen a steamer, and he was sick for home. As his trolley passed under the tower, P... ...ndon.” “He told me that the first time he went into the en- gine-room of a steamer, when he was a boy, he prayed to the low-pressure cylinder.” 11 Ru... ...tes as they ran or paused by the tool-issue sheds for bars and mat- tocks; locomotives creeping down their tracks wheel- deep in the crowd; till the b... ...orking hard.” From across the river came an almost continuous whistling of locomotives, backed by the rumble of stone. Hitchcock at the last minute wa... ...Hitchcock Sahib would not trust a rowboat. He has borrowed the Rao Sahib’s steam- launch, and comes to look for us. I have always said that there shou... ...and comes to look for us. I have always said that there should have been a steam-launch on the bridge works for us. The territory of the Rao of Baraon...

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...h the harvest country a smell like a large washing day, and a sharp issue of steam as from a huge brazen tea urn. The greatest power in na ture and a... ...and I have ships to load, and pitch and tar to boil, and iron to hammer, and steam to get up, and smoke to make, and stone to quarry, and fifty other ... ... to it. Refreshment rooms were there; one, for the hun gry and thirsty Iron Locomotives where their coke and water were ready, and of good quality, f... ...e dangerous to play tricks with; the other, for the hungry and thirsty human Locomotives, who might take what they could get, and whose chief consolat... ...tarting forward under the gas, like a hippopotamus’s eyes, dazzled the human locomotives with the sauce bottle, the cheap music, the bedstead, the dis... ...emselves to the mysterious urns and the much in jured women; while the iron locomotives, dripping fire The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices – Dicke... ...e The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices – Dickens 64 and water, shed their steam about plentifully, making the dull oxen in their cages, with heads ... ... drinking at half frozen waters and were hung with icicles. Through the same steam would be caught glimpses of their fellow travellers, the sheep, get... ...e for a thrust at him through the bars. Sud denly, the bell would ring, the steam would stop with one hiss and a yell, the chemists on the beanstalks...

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...SARY TO BE KNOWN NEWMAN NOGGS SCRAMBLED in violent haste upstairs with the steaming beverage, which he had so unceremoniously snatched from the table ... ...ations and delegates. In damp weather, the place is rendered close, by the steams of moist acts of parliament and frouzy petitions; gen- eral postmen ... ...aceful industrious communities of our island home: her rivers covered with steamboats, her roads with locomotives, her streets with cabs, her skies wi... ...ies of our island home: her rivers covered with steamboats, her roads with locomotives, her streets with cabs, her skies with balloons of a power and ... ...fireside to assist in empty- ing the bowl, which soon afterwards appeared, steaming in a manner which was quite exhilarating to behold, and sending 2... ...ho stopped to drive the happy pair to the spot where they proposed to take steamboat to Ryde, had not sent in a pe- remptory message intimating, that ...

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...SARY TO BE KNOWN NEWMAN NOGGS SCRAMBLED in violent haste upstairs with the steaming beverage, which he had so unceremoniously snatched from the table ... ...ations and delegates. In damp weather, the place is rendered close, by the steams of moist acts of parliament and frouzy petitions; gen- eral postmen ... ...aceful industrious communities of our island home: her rivers covered with steamboats, her roads with locomotives, her streets with cabs, her skies wi... ...ies of our island home: her rivers covered with steamboats, her roads with locomotives, her streets with cabs, her skies with balloons of a power and ... ...fireside to assist in empty- ing the bowl, which soon afterwards appeared, steaming in a manner which was quite exhilarating to behold, and sending 2... ...ho stopped to drive the happy pair to the spot where they proposed to take steamboat to Ryde, had not sent in a pe- remptory message intimating, that ...

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...boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck, The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter... ...fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms. 18 See, steamers steaming through my poems, See, in my poems immigrants continual... ... stone edifices, ceaseless vehicles, and commerce, See, the many cylinder’d steam printing press—see, the electric telegraph stretching across the co... ...’d, See, the strong and quick locomotive as it departs, panting, blowing the steam whistle, See, ploughmen ploughing farms—see, miners digging mines—s... ...n gallery with half shut eyes bent sideways, As the deck hands make fast the steamboat the plank is thrown for the shore going passengers, The young s... ...’d, I see trains of cars swiftly speeding along railroad tracks drawn by the locomotives, I see the stores, depots, of Boston, Baltimore, Charleston, ... ...of cars winding along the Platte carrying freight and passengers, I hear the locomotives rushing and roaring, and the shrill steam whistle, I hear the...

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...nough. When these places were visited I would have been glad to have had a steamboat or railroad collision, or any other accident happen, by which I m... ...nt from that village since my time has been graduated. I took passage on a steamer at Ripley, Ohio, for Pittsburg, about the middle of May, 1839. West... ...or freight. I have myself been detained two or three days at a place after steam was up, the gang planks, all but one, drawn 16 Personal Memoirs in, ... ...f Fort Jessup, and there await further orders. The troops were embarked on steamers and were on their way down the Mississippi within a few days after... ...go to Ohio to visit my parents. I was obliged to go to St. Louis to take a steamer for Louisville or Cincinnati, or the first steamer going up the Ohi... ...railroad, so there would be no delay in communication. I detained cars and locomotives enough at Burnsville to transport the whole of Ord’s command at... ...stroyed, and the rails taken up and twisted by the enemy. All the cars and locomotives not car- ried off had been destroyed as effectually as they kne... ...xemen were put to work getting out timber for bridges and cutting fuel for locomotives when the road should be completed. Car-build- ers were set to w... ...he road should be completed. Car-build- ers were set to work repairing the locomotives and cars. Thus every branch of railroad building, making tools ...

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...entleman, a Mr Malone, who is driving Mr Robinson down in his new American steam car. THE CHAUFFEUR. [springing up and coming hastily out of the car t... ...FFEUR. [springing up and coming hastily out of the car to Tanner] American steam car! Wot! racin us down from London! TANNER. Perhaps they’re here alr... ... We’ve lost the race, thank Heaven: here’s Mr Robinson. Well, Tavy, is the steam car a success? OCTAVIUS. I think so. We came from Hyde Park Corner he... ...self] I ask to be allowed the plea- sure of showing you my little American steam car, Miss Robinson. VIOLET. I shall be very pleased. [They go off tog... ...d wanted money instead of food. I know his clumsy typewriters and bungling locomotives and tedious bicycles: they are toys compared to the Maxim gun, ... ... name is Mendoza, Limited. Now whether 162 GB Shaw Mendoza’s a mine, or a steamboat line, or a bank, or a patent article— TANNER. He’s a man. I know ...

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...cs; fortifications, by gunpowder; roads and canals, by railways; sails, by steam; steam by electricity. You admire this tower of granite, weathering t... ...mpulses which these works obey? When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England and arriving at... ...the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odor- ous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the c... ...cres of the farm must be spaded, and the man must walk, wherever boats and locomotives will not carry him. Even the insect world was to be de- fended,...