The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 485
our 480 STEAM AND THE LOCOMOTIVE. miles an hour. In the final tests, the Novelty per-formed excellent work, but burst a pipe, by which it wasforced out of the competition. The Sanspareil madean average speed of about fourteen miles an hour, but itburst a water-pipe before the trial was over, and it… … THE ROCKET. (1829.) and a good deal more. During its test, its averagespeed was fifteen miles an hour; in a certain part of thetrial its average was about twenty-nine miles an hour. It ought to be mentioned at this point that one ofthe most material of the elements which led to the suc-cess was the…
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