. Factory and industrial management . of the Dy-berry, which lo-cality, by reasonof what occurredthere then, is en-titled to be con-sidered one of thehistoric spots of America. A few of the people who witnessed thatremarkable display of the first railroad locomotive in the world, out-side of England, are still among the living. Its uniqueness and its significance render its recall from threatenedoblivion worth while. The demonstration consisted of the runningof the curious little machine a distance of about a mile and a half andthen back, while the people shouted and hurrahed (after they had r
. Factory and industrial management . of the Dy-berry, which lo-cality, by reasonof what occurredthere then, is en-titled to be con-sidered one of thehistoric spots of America. A few of the people who witnessed thatremarkable display of the first railroad locomotive in the world, out-side of England, are still among the living. Its uniqueness and its significance render its recall from threatenedoblivion worth while. The demonstration consisted of the runningof the curious little machine a distance of about a mile and a half andthen back, while the people shouted and hurrahed (after they had re-covered from their first mute astonishment) and cannon boomed tillthe hills echoed. Great as were the excitement and enthusiasm that day, it is prob-able that not a single soul in all the throng—even the most sanguinelyimaginative one—had any adequate conception of the era that wasthere and thus inaugurated. On that momentous occasion Horatio Allen, who had been in-trusted with the purchase of the Lion and two other engines in. ? -^L^ THE • STDURBRIDGE LION. THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVEPLACED ON A TRACK IN AMERICA 8o2 PIONEER LOCOMOTIVES England, was the engineer and sole passenger. He had never run anengine before, and never did afterward, though he lived to be a veryold man, had much to do with early railroad affairs, and died only afew years ago. He always took much satisfaction in being the driverof the first locomotive on an American track, but was sorry, inview of some developments, that it was not one of Stephensons twolocomotives, counterparts of the celebrated Rocket, that madethe first trial, instead of the Stourbridge Lion, as in that casethe exploit of the Rocket in England would have been antici-pated in this country. He never knew until he saw it in a Chicagoexhibition in 1883 that the boiler of the Lion had not been con-structed in accordance with his orders. The Lion was not wholly a success, but was sufficiently so todemonstrate entire practicability. This pion
Size: 1972px × 1267px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubj, booksubjectengineering
