A history of travel in America : showing the development of travel and transportation from the crude methods of the canoe and the dog-sled to the highly organized railway systems of the present, together with a narrative of the human experiences and changing social conditions that accompanied this economic conquest of the continent (1915)
A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA … 270. — An American invention of 1847, designed to protect railroad passengers from the smoke and sparks of the locomotive. Nearly all the early engines used wood for fuel, and firebrands thrown out of the smokestack often burned the travellers’ clothing. There is no record showing that Town¬ send’s…
Transportation -- United States -- History · Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
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