The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century by Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Author:Wolfgang Schivelbusch [Schivelbusch, Wolfgang]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2014-05-06T00:00:00+00:00

. . . the means whereby their influence may be counteracted can be expressed in one word — elasticity — the natural antagonist of jerk. The provision of a sufficient intervention of elastic materials reduces the movement, which in a springless railway waggon is inconceivably distressing, to a gentle swaying motion. The springs of railway carriages, the horse-hair seats (and the elastic floor of cork supplied to the new royal carriage), are recognitions of the principle, which the habitual traveller may wisely extend for himself by many expedients, if he keeps in view what he has to attain — elasticity.24

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