The history of the first locomotives in America : from the original documents, and the testimony of living witnesses (1874)
Brown, William H. (William Henry), 1808-1883 · New York : D. Appleton and Company · leaf 252
may almost say, been conceivedand sprung into existence, and, from experiments made,it has been demonstrated to a certainty to possess allthe advantages that could have been conceived, evenexceeding the most sanguine expectations of its pro-jectors, and deciding its ultimate success. The future… … LOCOMOTIVE-WORKS. . 223 The locomotive is truly the king of machines and apermanent realization of the genii of the Eastern fable,whose supernatural powers were at the command of man.When the next fifty years have rolled around, how little .will men think of what we now call distance! Theterm will…
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