. Book of the Royal blue . a patent, and from thespecifications on file at Washington thehistorical fact is substantiated. Reed was the first to propose steam |)ro-pulsion on this continent, illustrating themeans to accomplish it through the modelfrom which the full-size representation inthe Baltimore & Ohio collection was was a typical Yankee in the bright-ness and celerity of his mind in evolvingmechanical contrivances. Unfortunately nothing that would generate steam and washimself a living exponent of restless moving of a dredging machine, a great,ungainly, lubberly sco
. Book of the Royal blue . a patent, and from thespecifications on file at Washington thehistorical fact is substantiated. Reed was the first to propose steam |)ro-pulsion on this continent, illustrating themeans to accomplish it through the modelfrom which the full-size representation inthe Baltimore & Ohio collection was was a typical Yankee in the bright-ness and celerity of his mind in evolvingmechanical contrivances. Unfortunately nothing that would generate steam and washimself a living exponent of restless moving of a dredging machine, a great,ungainly, lubberly scow with a bricked-infurnace and everything crude in the ex-treme, through the streets of Philadelphiawas a feat so astonishing that were it tobe duplicated to-morrow, the newspaperswould fill pages with description and illus-trations. It was done a hundred yearsago—and the first actual propulsion bysteam on land on the American , no one example of the sixtyodd full-size representations in the Balti-. application did not characterize his flitted from one thing to another,finally got into politics, was elected toCongress and no more heard of him. Evans was a big man. Of the sort sounfortunate as to live in advance of histime. His activity was phenomenal. Sowas his fertility. If it is proper to say father,in connection with high steam practice, theappellative undoubtedly belongs to worked engines of single flue, as hedid of double flue, at a pressure for whichhe would have been summarily hanged hadhe been within the reach of Watt andthe English Parliament. He stopped at more & Ohio collection produces the extentof curiosity manifested in the Evans. Agreat many people take it for a boat andnothing else, wondering, the meanwhile,what the deuce it is doing in a railway show-ing. It is a boat. Odd certainly, thatconstruction exclusively for water transitshould lead the way on land. Such, never-theless, is the historical record. Evans hadto get it
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