. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . THE BUILDING OF A RAILWAY. locomotive. Erasmus Darwin, in a poem published in 1781, madethis remarkable prediction : Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam! afarDrag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car. The first locomotive of which we have any certain record wasinvented, and put in operation on a model circular railway in London, in 1804, by Richard Tre-. First Locomotive. vithick, an erratic genius, who in-vented many things but perfectedfew. His locomotive could notmake steam, and therefore couldneither go
. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . THE BUILDING OF A RAILWAY. locomotive. Erasmus Darwin, in a poem published in 1781, madethis remarkable prediction : Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam! afarDrag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car. The first locomotive of which we have any certain record wasinvented, and put in operation on a model circular railway in London, in 1804, by Richard Tre-. First Locomotive. vithick, an erratic genius, who in-vented many things but perfectedfew. His locomotive could notmake steam, and therefore couldneither go fast nor draw a heavyload. This was the fault of all itssuccessors, until the competitivetrial of locomotives on the Liver-pool and Manchester Railway, in1829. The Stephensons, father and son, had invented the steamblast, which, by constantly blowing the fire, enabled the Rocket,with its tubular boiler, to make steam enough to draw ten passen-ger cars, at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour. Then was born the modern giant, and so recent is the date ofhis birth that one of the unsuccessful competitors at that memo-rable trial. Captain John Ericsson, was until the present year(1889) living and actively working in New York. Another en-gineer, Horatio Allen, who drove the first locomotive on the firsttrip ever made in the United States, in 1831, still lives, a haleand hearty old man, near New York. The earlier locomotives of this cou
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