. The working and management of an English railway . tweenthe primitive machines which were regarded as triumphsof engineering skill in the early days of railways, andthe magnificent engines which are produced in thesemodern times. This contrast is very forcibly illustratedby our reproduction in Plate XVII. of a photographof the old * Rocket, the first engine made byGeorge Stephenson for the Liverpool and ManchesterRailway, in 1829, which is still preserved in the SouthKensington Museum, and which the reader may com-pare with the representation in Plate XVIII. of the Marchioness of Stafford, e
. The working and management of an English railway . tweenthe primitive machines which were regarded as triumphsof engineering skill in the early days of railways, andthe magnificent engines which are produced in thesemodern times. This contrast is very forcibly illustratedby our reproduction in Plate XVII. of a photographof the old * Rocket, the first engine made byGeorge Stephenson for the Liverpool and ManchesterRailway, in 1829, which is still preserved in the SouthKensington Museum, and which the reader may com-pare with the representation in Plate XVIII. of the Marchioness of Stafford, embodying perhaps thehighest form of development of the passenger trainengine of the present day. The latter was exhibitedby its inventor, Mr. Francis W. Webb, the locomotivesuperintendent and chief mechanical engineer ofthe London and North-Western Railway, at theInventions Exhibition at Kensington, in none, however, venture to despise the humble Rocket, with her wheels with wooden rims, herungainly appearance, and, as we are now told, her. H-1 o
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