. Official proceedings . by steam was suggested over a century ago, and that springpower motors had been tried previous to that time in certainsections of Continental Europe, as well as certain wind- IO Proceedings Railway Club of Pittsburgh. power devices, which had been used on the plains of theNetherlands. It is said that about 1680 it was suggested to use a roadwagon with a steam boiler, having a rearward jet of steamblowing against the atmosphere to secure propulsion of thevehicle. It also appears that Dr. Robinson, as early as 1759,suggested the idea of the application of a steam engine
. Official proceedings . by steam was suggested over a century ago, and that springpower motors had been tried previous to that time in certainsections of Continental Europe, as well as certain wind- IO Proceedings Railway Club of Pittsburgh. power devices, which had been used on the plains of theNetherlands. It is said that about 1680 it was suggested to use a roadwagon with a steam boiler, having a rearward jet of steamblowing against the atmosphere to secure propulsion of thevehicle. It also appears that Dr. Robinson, as early as 1759,suggested the idea of the application of a steam engine in thepropulsion of road carriages, but nothing practical was at-tained at that time as the result of such suggestions. More progress at this time was made on the continent ofEurope than in England in development of mechanism of thisclass, and finally a running steam wagon was constructed byCugnot in 1769, and a second one by the same man in 1770,the last mentioned being illustrated herewith in Figures 1and 2. ^^Tr\ heUI. Figs, i and 2.—Cugnots Second RoadWagon, 1770. Examination of the annexed cut will show that this con-struction comprised a boiler and driving gear mounted on andin connection with the driving wheel, the same wheel beingused for the steering mechanism by having it pivoted on whathas been more recently termed a fore carriage. It is no-ticeable that such fore carriage construction has appearedagain and again in the development of the automobile up tothe most recent date, but has apparently never reached anyvery prominent place among the devices which have gone intopractical use. Automobile vs. Railway ^Transportation. ii Another improvement in the art was worked out by aman by the name of Hancock about the year 1830, and twodifferent types of carriage or wagon constructed by Hancockare shown, respectively, in Figures 3 and 4. yini^
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