. Book of the Royal blue . THE FIRST DOUKLR-ENDER AND FIRST ON EKiHT WHEELS-NEW YORK. 1H32, ALLE: THE WAY OF THE RAIL IN THE WORLD. 7i .A.,^3BBip*^ I ^-Tsa ife^ [■HK FIRST IN THE LOWER MISSIKBIPPI COUNTRY IHM-. ROGERS FIRST AND THE FJR8T WEST OF THE OHIO RIV THE WAY OF THE RAIL IN THE WORLD. tubes and that it was the first multi-tubularboiler of which there is authentic record, isbeyond controversy. This was in 1790;Reed taking out a patent, and from thespecifications on file at Washington thehistorical fact is substantiated. Reed was the first to propose steam |)ro-pulsion on this continent,


. Book of the Royal blue . THE FIRST DOUKLR-ENDER AND FIRST ON EKiHT WHEELS-NEW YORK. 1H32, ALLE: THE WAY OF THE RAIL IN THE WORLD. 7i .A.,^3BBip*^ I ^-Tsa ife^ [■HK FIRST IN THE LOWER MISSIKBIPPI COUNTRY IHM-. ROGERS FIRST AND THE FJR8T WEST OF THE OHIO RIV THE WAY OF THE RAIL IN THE WORLD. tubes and that it was the first multi-tubularboiler of which there is authentic record, isbeyond controversy. This was in 1790;Reed taking out a patent, and from thespecifications on file at Washington thehistorical fact is substantiated. Reed was the first to propose steam |)ro-pulsion on this continent, illustrating themeans to accomplish it through the modelfrom which the full-size representation inthe Baltimore & Ohio collection was was a typical Yankee in the bright-ness and celerity of his mind in evolvingmechanical contrivances. Unfortunately nothing that would generate steam and washimself a living exponent of restless moving of a dredging machine, a great,ungainly, lubberly scow with a bricked-infurnace and everything crude in the ex-treme, through the streets of Philadelphiawas a feat so astonishing that were it tobe duplicated to-morrow, the newspaperswould fill pages


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