A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 178
sing either a non-condensing engine or an air-surface condenser. He actuallyincluded the locomotive-engine in his patent of 1784; andhis assistant, Murdoch, in the same year, made a working-model locomotive (Fig. 45), which was capable of ninningat a rapid rate. This model, now deposited in the… … Fia. 45.—MnrdocVs Model, 1T84. Nothing was, however, done on a larger scale by eitherWatt or Murdoch, who both found more than enough toclaim their attention in the construction and introductionof other engines. Murdochs model is said to have runfrom 6 to 8 miles an hour, its little driving-wheels…
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