Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young (1860)
Timbs, John, 1801-1875 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 416
henson prepared an engine {thelioclcet)^ construct-ed on this principle, to contend for the prize of £500which the Railway Directors offered for the best engine,to be produced on a certain day, to draw a weight oftwenty tons at ten miles an hour. The trial took placeon October 6, 1829, at Rainhill.… … The Rocket prize Locomotive Engine. The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Rail-way took place on the 15th of September, 1830. TheDuke of Wellington, then prime minister, Sir Robert Peel, 412 THE kOCKEt PKIZE ENGINE. and other distinguished persons, were present; but thesad death of…
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