. Book of the Royal blue . ation he worked out, but conducted hisexperimenting at night. His model, onlyhalf size as it was, marked the initial move-ment by steam in England. The nocturnal doings of Murdoch wereusually conducted so quietly in some out-of-the-way lane as to minimize the chancesof discovery, but one night a good countryparson lost a years growth through thefright of the thing and further experiment-ing in that locality became impossible. speak: Murdochs, owing to his timidityand Watts aggressiveness, was little, ifanything, more. Reed figured as a kind of mechanicalmeteor. Betwe


. Book of the Royal blue . ation he worked out, but conducted hisexperimenting at night. His model, onlyhalf size as it was, marked the initial move-ment by steam in England. The nocturnal doings of Murdoch wereusually conducted so quietly in some out-of-the-way lane as to minimize the chancesof discovery, but one night a good countryparson lost a years growth through thefright of the thing and further experiment-ing in that locality became impossible. speak: Murdochs, owing to his timidityand Watts aggressiveness, was little, ifanything, more. Reed figured as a kind of mechanicalmeteor. Between him and Evans lies thedistinction of the introduction of tubes—brass and copper—in boilers. Evans un-doubtedly created the type from which thehigh-i)ressure boiler of to-day has wasnt tubular at the start. Double, orreturn flue to begin with, and how farReeds experiments influenced Evans isdifficult to decide. That Reed fitted theboiler of his model of a road wagon with THE WAY OF THE RAIL IN THE THE FIRST DOUKLR-ENDER AND FIRST ON EKiHT WHEELS-NEW YORK. 1H32, ALLE: THE WAY OF THE RAIL IN THE WORLD. 7i .A.,^3BBip*^ I ^-Tsa ife^ [■HK FIRST IN THE LOWER MISSIKBIPPI COUNTRY IHM-


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