tive service, and did duty for over a was given by a single fixed eccentric for each cylinder. been in no way the cause, of any Wall Street panic. score of years. It was a four-wheeled engine, weighing a Five locomotives were built in 1834, when the new busi- little over five tons; the driving… … and 1046 by 16 inches cylinder, The Baldwin Locomotive Works, at Philadelphia, had an humble weighing 20,000 pounds. In 1842, Mr. Baldwin patented what has since been con- beginning. Matthias W. Baldwin, the founder, was a diameter, and the cylinders 944 inches in diameter by 18 sidered the…
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