Their three main achievements were cutting a 120 yard tunnel through rock at Grosmont, constructing a rope-worked incline system at Beck Hole and traversing the marshy and deep Fen Bog using a bed of timber and sheep fleeces.

The tunnel was very steep with an incline of 1: 3. 5, rolling stock was originally pulled up to the surface using a wire rope and a winch.

* 1834-The Allegheny Portage Railroad, consisting of 36 miles of track traversing 10 incline planes and the first railroad tunnel in the United States, opens on the Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works allowing barge traffic to travel between the Juniata and Western Division canals over the 1, 399 foot ( 426 m ) Allegheny Front.

The largest bore, in the centre, was the 2, 250-yard Wapping Tunnel, a long incline leading to Wapping Dock and the world's first tunnel to be bored under a metropolis.

It was later extended on a curving incline so that it could pass over the Wapping tunnel and enter the goods yard created after the abandonment of the Crown Street station.

In the late 19th century the central part of the tunnel collapsed and the decision was made to build a double-track bypass line to the west through a cutting ( to reduce the incline ) on more stable ground, which rejoined the main line at Knowle Junction near Funtley.

North and northeast of the town of Thorp along the Yakima River channel is the gradual upward lift of the Thorp Drift, marked by an elevation change due to the incline onto the terminal moraine that marks the furthest advance of the Thorp Glacial stage.

Typical roller coasters use a lift hill, to drag a train up an incline, and then allow the force of gravity and a steep drop accelerate the train.

Some automatics even lock the output shaft so that the car cannot roll backwards when beginning to accelerate up an incline.

These were all horse drawn or relied on gravity, with a stationary steam engine to haul the wagons back to the top of the incline.

Slowed by the incline, and armed only with traditional throwing spears, they were badly mauled by Shaka's men in close quarters fighting.

Unlike the gadgety mechanical desks of the second part of the 18th century, however, the mechanical parts of drawing tables were usually limited to notches, ratchets, and perhaps a few simple gears, or levers or cogs to elevate and incline the working surface.

Saverne ( Tres Tabernae Cesaris ( Caesar's three taverns, so called because in the older days there were three taverns on the way to the Lorraine plateau where they would change oxen due to the steep incline ) was an important place in the time of the Roman Empire, and, after being destroyed by the Alamanni, was rebuilt by the emperor Julian.

The goods depot was rebuilt with the inconvenient wagon hoists replaced by a steep incline connection from the east end of Temple Meads, which meant that the sidings in the goods shed were turned at right angles to their original alignment and the barge dock was filled in.

The book has been regarded by some as an independent work ; others incline to the view that the sketches were written from time to time by Theophrastus, and collected and edited after his death ; others, again, regard the Characters as part of a larger systematic work, but the style of the book is against this.

Coal, building materials and general goods were delivered down the incline and the contents of the village cesspits were hauled back up for disposal along the lineside.

Public passenger trains initially ran between Abergynolwyn, Dolgoch and Pendre stations only ; quarrymen were carried on unofficial trains that continued on from Abergynolwyn to the foot of the Alltwyllt incline in Nant Gwernol gorge.

Until 1844, trains were pulled up the incline to Camden Town by cables because the London and Birmingham Railway's Act of Parliament prohibited the use of locomotives in the Euston area ; this prohibition is said to have been at the request of Lord Southampton, who owned land bordering this section of the line.

It has often been claimed that initially, owing to the lack of power available to early locomotives, trains from Euston were cable-hauled up the relatively steep incline to Camden by a stationary steam engine.

A town 10 to 25 miles off the mail rail trunk, if it were 1000 or more feet higher, would be very difficult and expensive to serve by rail due to the grade incline.

Because of the steep incline between Lime Street and Edge Hill, trains were stopped at Edge Hill, their locomotives removed, and the passenger carriages taken down by gravity, descent controlled by brakemen.

In 1857 the PRR purchased the Main Line of Public Works from the State of Pennsylvania and the canals and incline plains were mostly abandoned.

During the 1950s alterations were made to the road surface to make the incline less steep.

He described a new variety to have come out of France, which were speckled all over with white and black, " which mingled colours incline to a marble blewe ".

Two battalions of Spanish Guards were formed up, in line, at the top of a steep incline while the remaining two formed close columns behind them ; a single battery of Spanish artillery supported the whole position.

Bowers said, These two men were standing back from the street somewhat at the top of the incline and were very near two trees which were in the area.

It was here that extra locomotives were attached to heavy trains to help them up the incline to Whiteball Tunnel on their way south.

These locomotives, the Keira No. 1 and Keira No. 2 were the first locomotives to work on this coal route but steam locomotives were earlier used at Bulli Colliery from 1867-even though the first Bulli locomotive purchased proved too heavy for the track which had previously been designed for an ingenious gravitational coal-skip incline to the jetty over four cutting and four bridges.

There was a significantly greater number in this group who reported a desk as being in a tilted position while a tennis ball resting on it remained stationary on the incline.

This would typically incline the tooth to crack formation on the posterior side of the tooth, but the ampullae at the base of the already crack-like serrations would tend to diffuse potential crack-forming forces.

The manual transmission is equipped with Incline Start Assist which, on an incline, holds the brake for a second after releasing it to allow for time to depress the accelerator.

Branch membership has been on a steep incline overall and continues to trend upwards, as does shop organizing.

# We incline to the view that on his abdication the Duke of Windsor could not have claimed the right to be described as a Royal Highness.

The cars can be attached to a second cable running through a pulley at the bottom of the incline in case the gravity force acting on the vehicles is too low to operate them on the slope.

This practice is used for funiculars with gradients below 6 %, funiculars using sledges instead of cars or any other case where it is not ensured that the descending car is always able to pull out the cable from the pulley in the station on the top of the incline.

It was to be 32 km long and 90 meters wide, rising to 7. 25 meters above sea-level, with an incline of 25 % on each side.

* Clay Street, an alley beneath Angels Flight incline railway, on Bunker Hill, where Hammer parks his Corvette and then takes the back steps up to the Hill Crest Hotel, but when we cut to him approaching the hotel's large porch, he's on the Third Street steps opposite Angels Flight.

The plateau has a slight incline caused by increased sensitivity to low energy radiation, due to the increased voltage on the device.

This reduces the risk of the tandem toppling over due to starting on an incline.

The timber around Lake Tahoe was placed on the incline railway where it was taken up and then dropped by a gravity flume down the eastern side of the mountains.

Steam locomotives could not operate on the Beck Hole incline ; so in the early 1860s the North Eastern Railway started construction of an alternate route which opened in 1865 – this is the route which is still in use today.

The village is on an incline facing north-east, the Parish Church, is vertically in the middle.

The first has one or two of the legs in front of the sitting person ; in the second, sitting astride something, the legs incline outwards on either side of the body.

" About the same time he tells us that he “ did carefully take notice of every grandaction betwixt king and parliament, and did first then incline to believe that as all sublunary affairs depend on superior causes, so there, was: a possibility of discovering them by the configurations of the superior bodies.

In addition, it is not uncommon for modern practitioners to sit zazen in a chair, often with a wedge / cushion on top of the chair seat so that one is sitting on an incline, or by placing a wedge behind the lower back to help maintain the natural curve of the spine.

Perhaps the simplest solution to the tautochrone problem is to note a direct relation between the angle of an incline and the gravity felt by a particle on the incline.