. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . because they werenot patronized. That was the beginningof a series of attempts and failures whichwere repeated on a variety of railroads,until experience, profiting by previousmistakes, and ingenuity, ever active toinvent improvements on old forms, pro-duced sleeping-car berths that peoplewere eager to patronize. As early as 1850,two or three of the long railroads beganputting sleeping berths in their way-cars(brake vans) for the use of stockmen incharge of cattle. The berths were littlebetter than widg
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . because they werenot patronized. That was the beginningof a series of attempts and failures whichwere repeated on a variety of railroads,until experience, profiting by previousmistakes, and ingenuity, ever active toinvent improvements on old forms, pro-duced sleeping-car berths that peoplewere eager to patronize. As early as 1850,two or three of the long railroads beganputting sleeping berths in their way-cars(brake vans) for the use of stockmen incharge of cattle. The berths were littlebetter than widg shelves that were hungfrom the side of the car, but they servedtheir purpose. This making an upperberth by a movable shelf hinged to thewall led to a celebrated lawsuit betweentwo leading sleeping-car companies yearslater. One company claimed that it hada patent on the device, and the other con-tested the plea on the ground that theplan was old. Evidence was presentedproving that the hinged shelf had longbeen used for making sleeping berths; andamong other facts it was shown tliat the. WATERLOO UNDERGROUND MOTOR CAR. any point. The shops, however, besidewhich the photograph of the cars wastaken, are in an open cut. about 18 feet be-low the surface. It is lyi miles long. The cars are of American make, beingsupplied by Messrs. Jackson & Sharp, ofWilmington, Del. Did Napoleon Invent the Sleeping Car? A sort of protest has been repeated agreat deal lately in .American journals tothe effect that public opinion is mistakenin supposing that George M. Pullmanwas the inventor of the sleeping car. Pull-man did not invent the sleeping car, anymore than James Watt invented thesteam-engine or George Stephenson thelocomotive. But there never was a car inwhich comfortable beds were provideduntil Pullman showed how it could bedone. In 1838 cars with sleeping berthswere put on what is now the PennsylvaniaRailroad, between Baltimore and Phila-delphia, and much boasting was doneabout the comfort
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