. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . together in his Philadelphia shop. By 1790 the Yankee Read had so farprogressed with his plans for the adap-tation of steam to road locomotion as tosecure a patent—the original papersbeing still existent—and make a , the harbinger of the steam carriage;or automobile on the American ( devised for the transport of freightand might, not at all inaptly, be spokenof as the parent of the heavy deliverytrucks that now, a century and a quarterlater, have become common on ourstreets. In the Read of 1780 was theprimary introduction of cop
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . together in his Philadelphia shop. By 1790 the Yankee Read had so farprogressed with his plans for the adap-tation of steam to road locomotion as tosecure a patent—the original papersbeing still existent—and make a , the harbinger of the steam carriage;or automobile on the American ( devised for the transport of freightand might, not at all inaptly, be spokenof as the parent of the heavy deliverytrucks that now, a century and a quarterlater, have become common on ourstreets. In the Read of 1780 was theprimary introduction of copper and bias-tubes—the multitubular boiler. It wasthe pioneer formulation, through anactually outlined plan, of steam pro-pulsion on land in America. Readcouldnt make a go of it in enlisting in-fluence or capital in the steam wagon any material extent, in other inven-tions of which he was very prolific, disgusted at the lack of appre-ciation of the emanations of his head-piece he turned as a by-play to politics;. 18 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE was elected to Congress and never after-ward heard from. Near Watt in Cornwall was a man whohad vainly endeavored to evade hispatents; tenaciously seeking to find away to get around them and do some-thing. Richard Trevithick was his name,and every thought of him is as of a giantphysically and mentally. A Hercules inbuild and possessed of the strength of aSamson he was the idol of the miners towhich class he originally belonged. Thetales of his prowess with his bare handsin twisting horse shoes out of shape; ofhis bending iron bars over his forearmand of superhuman power of lifting andstriking are yet traditional in infinitely more enduring is RichardTrevithicks fame as the Father of theLocomotive. For such he was—storybooks to the contrary notwithstanding. Watts patents keep Trevithick rest-less, and by no means voiceless until,happily in 1800 they expire and thebrawny big miners opport
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