A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 238
d late in the year 1831. This was the firsteight-wheeled engine, and the prototype, also, of a peculiarand lately-revived form of engine. In the summer of 1832, an engine built by Messrs. Davis& Gartner, of York, Pa., was put on the Baltimore &Ohio road, which at times attained a speed,… … Fig. 62.—The South CaroUna, 1881. Horatio Allens engine on the South Carolina Railroadis said to have been the first eight-wheeled engine ever built. It was at about the time of which we are now writingthat the first locomotive was built of what is now distinc- 214 THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. tively…
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