Excerpt from All About Coal What a powerful engine a railway locomotive is Just try to picture how many bullocks would be needed to pull a long train of carriages or wagons. Why, it would take hundreds, perhaps thousands, Of bullocks to do as much work as a single railway engine; and think of how fast the engine can go. What a weary journey it would be if the only way you could get, say from Calcutta to Bombay, or Madras, was by means of a bullock cart or even a horse gharry. It would take about three months to go on a ...
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Excerpt from All About Coal What a powerful engine a railway locomotive is Just try to picture how many bullocks would be needed to pull a long train of carriages or wagons. Why, it would take hundreds, perhaps thousands, Of bullocks to do as much work as a single railway engine; and think of how fast the engine can go. What a weary journey it would be if the only way you could get, say from Calcutta to Bombay, or Madras, was by means of a bullock cart or even a horse gharry. It would take about three months to go on a bullock cart whereas you can go in less than two days in a railway train. And perhaps you have seen the big steam-ships coming up the river at Calcutta or into the docks at Bombay or Madras. How grandly they move through the water, and glide into their berths Here again it is coal which provides the power to drive those great vessels through the water. Deep down in the hold of the ship coolies are hard at work keeping the boiler fires fed with coal. Coal is the fuel which drives the railway engine and the steam-ship just as food is the fuel which keeps you alive and makes you grow bigger and stronger. There are many other things which man can do by means of coal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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