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 273
r, being very desirous of removing all apprehensionsfrom the minds of the doubtful, and anxious to exhibitthe great facility with which the cars could be broughtto a dead halt in an instant when running at fall speed,and all danger of collision with vehicles in the streetrendered impossible,… … periment, he placed himself somewhere about the cor-ner of the Bowery and Bond Street. As the first carapproached, he raised his arm and gave the signal to 240 HISTORY OF THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVES IN AMERICA. stop. ODell, who, with his grays, had some previouspractice, while hauling materials in the…
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