. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . clever inventors on different lines,and while the results are necessarilylargely similar, there are several markedfeatures in Walschaerts masterly inven-tion, especially in its application to loco-motives, that mark its superiority almostbeyond controversy. It is to be regretted that little or noth-ing came to the ingenious mechanic fromhis fine invention. Under the absurd lawsip vogue in the Belgian Stale Railwayshe was not even permitted to obtain apatent in his own name. Other inventionsof
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . clever inventors on different lines,and while the results are necessarilylargely similar, there are several markedfeatures in Walschaerts masterly inven-tion, especially in its application to loco-motives, that mark its superiority almostbeyond controversy. It is to be regretted that little or noth-ing came to the ingenious mechanic fromhis fine invention. Under the absurd lawsip vogue in the Belgian Stale Railwayshe was not even permitted to obtain apatent in his own name. Other inventionsof less note came from his hand from timeto time. He was awarded a gold medaland diploma for his valve gear at theParis Exposition in 1878, and another atthe Exhibition in Antwerp in 1883. Thefirst locomotive equipped with Wal-schaerts valve gear was No. 98, of theBelgian State Railways, and ran from theshops at Malines to Brussels on Sept. 2,1848. It attracted wide attention, but asthe English locomotives had almost com-plete control of the market at that time,the new and beautiful valve motion did. UNION STATION AT FREMONT. , C. & N. W. ANU I I-. 1 K.\l l^^ structed several other models, and in 1841he was awarded a silver medal by thecommissioners of the Brussels the age of twenty-two he entered theshops of the Belgium State Railways atMalines as a machinist. At twenty-fourhe was shop foreman, and in the sameyear he perfected the valve mechanismthat bears his name. It may be remarkedthat at the time that Walschaerts valvegear appeared, the Sharp valve gear, hav-ing two eccentric rods with forked ends,was the only kind in use. The shiftinglink, the invention of a young English rot come into general use outside of Bel-gium for many years. It slowly workedits way into the Continental service ofEurope, and where it was given a fairtrial, almost always superseded the shift-ing link motion used by the of the first American engineers toappreciate its
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