[permalink] [id link]
When Brunel was proposing to build SS Great Western for the 3, 500-mile transatlantic passage to New York, at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Lardner stated that: As the project of making the voyage directly from New York to Liverpool, it was perfectly chimerical, and they might as well talk of making the voyage from New York to the moon … 2, 080 miles is the longest run that a steamer could encounter – at the end of that distance she would require a relay of coals.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
When and Brunel
When Brunel arrived from America he immediately travelled to London and made contact with Sophia.
When the resident engineer, William Armstrong, fell ill in April 1826 Marc's son Isambard Kingdom Brunel took over at the age of 20.
When Isambard Kingdom Brunel conceived the Great Western Railway ( GWR ), he sought an improved design for his railway track and accepted none of the previous received wisdom without challenge.
When the London and Birmingham Railway declined the use of Cooke's telegraph, there is one account that exists that claims Cooke had been introduced to Brunel by Robert Stephenson.
( When Brunel, for instance, first surveyed the GWR, he planned to use cable assistance in the Box Tunnel.
When, in 1846, Brunel's SS Great Britain went aground on the sands of Dundrum Bay, Ireland, it is to Bremner that Brunel turned for help.
When Stephenson was under pressure during the enquiry following the collapse of his cast-iron girder bridge over the River Dee killing several people, Brunel did not desert him.
When and was
When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.
When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.
When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.
When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.
`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.
When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.
`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.
When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.
When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.
When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.
When he was eight he began violin lessons.
When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.
When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.
When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.
When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.
When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.
When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.
When and proposing
When Jacob heard of these dreams, he rebuked his son for proposing the idea that the house of Jacob would even bow down to Joseph.
When, in 1887, the French and Italian Governments agreed upon moving the mortal remains of Rossini into the Basilica di Santa Croce, in Florence, Alboni, then a sixty-one-year-old lady living in seclusion, wrote to the Italian Foreign Minister, Di Robilant, proposing that the Petite Messe Solennelle, " the last musical composition by Rossini ", be performed in Santa Croce the day of the funeral, and " demanding the honour, as an Italian and a pupil of the immortal Maestro ," of singing it herself in her " dear and beloved homeland ".
When rumours arose that Edward and his brother ( the Princes in the Tower ) were dead, Buckingham intervened, proposing instead that Henry Tudor return from exile, take the throne and marry Elizabeth of York, older sister of the Tower Princes.
; In claris non fit interpretatio: When a rule is clearly intelligible, there is no need of proposing an ( usually extensive ) interpretation.
When rumours arose that Edward and his brother ( the Princes in the Tower ) were dead, Buckingham intervened, proposing instead that Henry Tudor return from exile, take the throne and marry Elizabeth of York.
When officials from the City of Bridgeton heard of a state report proposing to move over 1, 000 prisoners from Riverfront State Prison in Camden to South Woods, Bridgeton officials opposed the plans.
When a presiding magistrate was proposing a motion, for example, the senators could call " consult " ( consule ), which required the magistrate to ask for the opinions of the senators.
When news of Kulnev's incursion spread to the Swedish capital, the new king sent an embassy to Knorring, proposing a truce.
When Nicias, a political opponent of his and a strategos for that year, proposed to send a commission, with Cleon among its members, to verify the reports from Pylos, Cleon attacked him for proposing to waste time that should have been spent attacking.
Julius Caesar offered a similar opinion over a century earlier :" No disgrace attaches to armed robbery, provided it is committed outside the frontiers of the tribe .... When one of the chiefs announces at an assembly that he is going to lead a raid, and calls for volunteers, ... those who agree with the raid and approve of the men proposing it stand up .... If any of those men then fail to go with him, they are regarded as deserters and traitors and no one ever trusts them again in anything.
When in 1929, Menchik entered the Carlsbad, Viennese master Albert Becker ridiculed her entry by proposing that any player whom Menchik defeated in tournament play should be granted membership into the Vera Menchik Club.
When he tried to have her paroled from Bedford Reformatory by proposing marriage, she rejected him.
When Francisco Pizarro arrived in Cajamarca in November 1532, he sent a messenger to Atahualpa, proposing they meet outside the main plaza.
When Eric Trist and A T M Wilson wrote to Lewin proposing a journal in partnership with their newly founded Tavistock Institute and his group at MIT, Lewin agreed.
When keeping the Minister busy is not sufficient to prevent him from proposing new policy, Sir Humphrey is not above deceiving or even blackmailing him.
1.415 seconds.