. The railroad and engineering journal . 1837. The first railroads, it is true, were exclusively intendedfor the transportation of freight, and the motive powerwas furnished by horses or by stationary engines. Butthe transportation of passengers on the St. Etienne-Lyonslinewas begun in July, 1832, and in 1836 the number ofpassengers carried over the road exceeded 170,000. Finallyit was at the same date, July, 1832, that Marc Seguin, whohad taken out, in February, 1828, a patent for a tubularboiler, used for the first time on the St. Etienne-Lyonslines, the motive power which completes the rail
. The railroad and engineering journal . 1837. The first railroads, it is true, were exclusively intendedfor the transportation of freight, and the motive powerwas furnished by horses or by stationary engines. Butthe transportation of passengers on the St. Etienne-Lyonslinewas begun in July, 1832, and in 1836 the number ofpassengers carried over the road exceeded 170,000. Finallyit was at the same date, July, 1832, that Marc Seguin, whohad taken out, in February, 1828, a patent for a tubularboiler, used for the first time on the St. Etienne-Lyonslines, the motive power which completes the railroad andgives it its true character, the locomotive. In short, to pretend to celebrate in 1887 the semi-cen-tennial of French railroads, according to this writer, is notonly to mis-represent or to be ignorant of history ; it is tolower the flag of France before several other nations,when in fact she either surpassed or at least equalled themin the beginning of her railroad system. Vol. LXI, No. ENGINEERING JOURNAL. 180 Fig. rs to locomotives and rolling I:ion of wearing parts makesand new devices are Special Tools for Railroad Repair Shops. In June, 1S84, the Committee on Shopsaid, in its report to the Master Mechani The age of specialtools and machineryhas come to stay. :indthose who adhere toold-time notions of do-ing work, getting onemachine to do manykinds of work, doingno kind economically oraccurately, will c e r -tainly be left behind. This statement wasdiiulitless correct and tothe point. The consolidation ofrailroads makes dupli-cation of pans neces-sary for proper andetficient maintenance of restock generally : this dupl:special tools and machinery a necessitybeing continually placed on the machine-tool builders have theirspecialties and aim at the production oftools, the use of which will cheapen andsimplify the work fi >r which it is tools and machinery whichare light and easily handled, haveproved invaluable for ro
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