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 74
vel to and fro. The distance run by the Rocketwas about twelve miles in fifty-three minutes. The 66 HISTORY OF THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVES IN AMERICA. Novelty was next tried. It was a very complicatedmachine, carrying the water and fuel upon the samewheels as the engine, and the whole weighed three… … THE NOVELTY LOCOMOTIVE. The Sans-pareil was next tried, but no particularexperiment was made on that clay. The contest was postponed until the following day,but, before the judges arrived upon the ground, thebellows for creating the draught or blast in the Noveltygave way, and it was incapable of…
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