The Rainhill trials in October 1829. Preparation of the locomotives that were about to take part in the first speed race of their category, to inaugurate the railway line between Liverpool and Manchester. Illustration from "Les Merveilles de la science ou description populaire des inventions modernes" written by Louis Figuier and published in 1867 by Furne, Jouvet et Cie.

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