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 75
r. Stephenson, to lessen thedisappointment to the vast crowd assembled to witnessthese experiments by the delay, brought out the Rocketand attached it to a coach containing thirty persons,and ran it along the road at the rate of from twenty-six COMPETITION FOR PRIZES. G7 to thirty miles an hour,… … THE SANS-PAEEIL LOCOMOTIVE. On the morning of October 8, 1829, the Rocket wasagain upon the road for the contest. The fire-box wasfilled with coke, the fire lighted, and the steam raiseduntil it lifted the safety-valve loaded to the pressure offifty pounds to the square inch. These…
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