. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 76.—Arabian, as displayed at the Chicago Exposition of Rail- way Appliances, 1883. Photo courtesy of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. and was followed by two attempts by Reeder, of Baltimore, neither of which was successful; then came Davis's little engine that took the place of horses, but was found too light for the increasing traffic even for the short distance to the Relay House and Ellicott's Mills, and Davis, who had become foreman of the shops or master mechanic of the road, designed the "Arabian," taking a bold leap fo
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 76.—Arabian, as displayed at the Chicago Exposition of Rail- way Appliances, 1883. Photo courtesy of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. and was followed by two attempts by Reeder, of Baltimore, neither of which was successful; then came Davis's little engine that took the place of horses, but was found too light for the increasing traffic even for the short distance to the Relay House and Ellicott's Mills, and Davis, who had become foreman of the shops or master mechanic of the road, designed the "Arabian," taking a bold leap for the time from a 2%-ton engine to one of 13 tons,238 and that for a strap-bar rail on wooden stringers. When George King, of York, Pa., a paper maker, would come to us for paper moulds (it was the time of hand-made paper), he always had something to say about Phineas Davis, a young man of York, whom he considered a prodigy in mechanics; he could turn his hand to anything; he could reface paper moulds with wire cloth, form the letters and devices in wire for water marks and sew them on the moulds as well as the most experienced hand; he told us of a patent lever watch that Davis had made, and so small The Early Motive Power oj the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (New York, 1912), pp. 5-8. 238 Thc Arabian was the third locomotive to be built by Davis after the York. The weight of the Arabian was given in an annual report as 7'j tons. See Bell (cited in preceding foot- note), pp. 1 7~i9. that he could cover it with a levy, the old Spanish coin, the % of a dollar, in Philadelphia called eleven penny-bit or levy for short, and in New York a shilling. The next time Mr. King came to the city he brought the watch to show us: as I recollect it, it was about the size of our 20-cent piece. It was a beautiful piece of workmanship considering the tools Davis had at his command. Mr. King represented that he [Davis] had never had an opportunity of seeing how work was done outside of the watch
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