It is my conviction that, in only a fewĭecades, all cogwheels will operate without play’. Used to understanding the wheel and its cogs as a unit, a whole, and thus to Its individual parts: ‘During the last century we have gradually become Intensification, etc., in terms of an ever more precise interaction between Theory of the machine later on in greater detail.) 6 He then described theĭevelopment of the machine in the direction of increased performance, 5 (Italics in original we will return to Reuleaux’s The joining of rail and wheel was the decisive step ‘that joined carriage and Nineteenth century, agreed with the early chroniclers of the railroad that Kinematik (1875) summed up the development of machinery in the Of parts, which became ever more important as the railroad was Railroad - smooth wheels on smooth rails - retains that concept of unity The cogwheel episode now looks merely like a symbolically exaggeratedĭemonstration of the concept of rail and carriage as one machine: it shows but was, to all appearances, propelling itself along. Longer set in motion by a power extraneous to itself - the draught animal Psychological perceptions of iron and steel, and points to a fundamentalĬhange in the history of the wheel. Instructive in a number of ways: it sheds light on the history of cultural and Seemed plausible even to engineers, and for a relatively long time, is Steel did not seem capable of sufficient adhesiveness. Until simple experience proved otherwise, smooth steel on smooth Was the notion that smooth wheels could not provide traction on smooth ‘imaginary difficulty’ (Lardner) in the minds of the early railway engineers Observations in 1825 showed such a cogwheeled locomotive. Illustration that Thomas Gray provided in the fifth edition of his Railways adhered to this model for a surprisingly long time. This curious, technically redundant form of construction also existed inĪ variant in which the driving wheel was a cog that connected with aĬograil laid between the running rails. In the teeth of the railroad and, in this way, produced a progressive motion The engine rolled were furnished with corresponding teeth, which worked Stretched along the entire distance to be travelled. Presented a line of projecting teeth, like those of a cog-wheel, which The railroad thus, instead of being composed of smooth bars of iron, Lardner described one of these creations, built by the mining engineerīlenkinsop: ‘He obtained a patent, in 1811, for the application of a rack. To this technical principle it is hard to imagine a more vivid demonstration In their experimental phase, railways were constructed according The latterĪppeared as horizontal cogwheels, providing counterparts to the engine’s Propelling cogwheels along proportionately serrated rails. Its rails by rolling on them but by means of interlocking cogs: it moved by That steam engine mounted on an undercarriage did not connect with Mounted on wheels in Leeds, making it move on rails, by means of a large For some time now, a steam engine has been (1815) on the railways in the English coal-mining district says: ‘NewĪpplication of steam engines. Thus, a report in theīulletin de la société pour l’encouragement de l’industrie nationale Seen, as yet, as a self-contained, autonomous motive apparatus, but simplyĪs a steam engine mounted on an undercarriage. Of ‘one machine’ appeared with particular clarity: the locomotive was not In an early phase of the railroad’s technological evolution, the concept Thus it isĮvident that one cannot separate the increasing knowledge of steam engines from Title.Īmeliorations of the one determines the improvements of the other. Originally published: New York : Urizen Books, cġ. Translation of: Geschichte der Eisenbahnreise. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Library of Congress has cataloged an earlier edition of this book as follows: The German text of this book was published under the title Geschichte derĮisenbahnreise by Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich, 1977Įnglish translation first published in the United States by Urizen Books, 1979įirst University of California Press edition 1986 The UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and Humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in ProQuest Ebook Central,ebookcentral.proquest/lib/wisc/detail.action?docID=1686847.Ĭopyright © 2014. The Railway Journey : The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century, University of California Press, 2014.
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