. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. to ships,yet those who sought toconstruct a steam engineto run on a track werecalled visionaries. Many people at firstcalled the clumsy invention a crime; thepuffing, noisy contrivance disturbed thepeace, and its terrific speed of fifteen milesper hour endangered public safety. It isrecorded that when the locomotive first ap-peared in England a man on horseback wasrequired to precede it to warn the public ofapproaching danger. If the Ro
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. to ships,yet those who sought toconstruct a steam engineto run on a track werecalled visionaries. Many people at firstcalled the clumsy invention a crime; thepuffing, noisy contrivance disturbed thepeace, and its terrific speed of fifteen milesper hour endangered public safety. It isrecorded that when the locomotive first ap-peared in England a man on horseback wasrequired to precede it to warn the public ofapproaching danger. If the Rocket (seepage 2150), and the Puffing Billy and thefirst Baldwin were crimes, the great Bald-vrin of 1917, the largest engine ever built(see illustration, page 2151), doubtless wouldhave appeared to the fearful folks of 1829as a dastardly outrage against peace andsecurity. Earliest Locomotives. The first success-ful attempt to construct a self-i3ropellingengine was by a Frenchman named Cugnotin 1796, but the railway locomotive was in-vented by Richard Trevithick, a Cornishminer, in 1804. While this locomotive wasconsidered a failure commercially, it eon-. LOCOMOTIVE 2150 LOCOMOTIVE tained most of the important features suc-cessfully used in later patterns. The successof the locomotive is due to George Stephen-son, an English engineer. In 1829, at a
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