Charles Babbage was an English mathematician and inventor: he invented the cowcatcher, reformed the British postal system, and was a pioneer in the fields of operations research and actuarial science.
He also added the pilot, or cowcatcher, to the locomotive and increased the number of drive wheels to eight for better traction.
Babbage was an English mathematician and inventor; he invented the cowcatcher, reformed the British postal system, and was a pioneer in the fields of operations research and actuarial science.
Some say it looks like a railroad engine with a cowcatcher, but it could be a look we'll warm up to.
Sitting on the train's cowcatcher, appearing to improvise breathtaking stunts, it is as if Keaton is in the very forefront of movie-making possibility.
It's totally chaotic – health and safety doesn't exist: we stood on the cowcatcher on the front of the train.
He restored it and took it on a tour of the United States, for which it was fitted with a bell, headlamp and cowcatcher.
Over the next few hours we travelled with the driver inside the loco engine, among tourists above the cowcatcher on the front of the train (we paid a 'special fee' for the privilege), and with the Malagasy in second class, where conditions could be charitably described as squashed.
Standing at the very front of the locomotive, on a ledge between the pounding diesel engine and the cowcatcher, which sweeps stray zebu cattle off the tracks, was an experience similar to being on the front of a giant, ageing rollercoaster.
Sight to See Some people called the wedge-shaped plot of land at the junction of Broadway and 23rd Street the cowcatcher or the stingy piece of pie.
As can happen during such an exercise, visitors' artworks reflected their personal style: Chrissie Papciak (left) drew Kewpie-size versions of herself complete with corkscrew curls and jet-tinted cowcatcher lashes, while a young man in a bowler hat, who signed his work H. Crosthwaite (below), sketched portraits that might have come straight from the gaslight era.
