Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 201
of thirty milesan hour. It seemed indeed to fly, presentingone of the most sublime spectacles of humaningenuity and human daring the world everbeheld. The railroad directors, at whose invitation thistest was made, had asked for ten miles an hour;Ericsson gave them thirty. The excitement ofthe… … Ericsson on his Arrival in England, aged twenty-three. he had beaten his rival ten miles an hour, thejudges determined to make traction power,rather than speed, the critical test, and the prizewas awarded to Stephensons Rocket, which JOHN ERICSSON 187 drew seventeen tons for seventy miles at the…
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