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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 99

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comotive with smooth driving-wheels. It had been thought necessary by someengineers to construct locomotives with coggeddriving-wheels, and a corresponding rack on therail, to prevent the wheels from slipping. ButStephenson successfully set aside all these con-trivances. He was nearly fifty years… … GEORGE SHOWING HIS MODEL TO THE COLLIERS. where his father worked. He then began to thinkof a plan for making the steam do the work of thehorse, and one day astonished the colliers by build-ing on a bench, in front of his fathers cottage, amodel in clay of an engine which turned the gin and lifted…

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