. Bulletin - United States National Museum . ^ Prices recollection neatly summarizes Lattas early attempts, butthe local press and the annual reports of the Little Miami Railroadalso carried some valuable items on these engines. The earliest ^9 Edwin Pi-ice reminiscences [1829-igoi] (fragmentary MS., NationalMuseum, Washington, ). 12. Figure 4.—Lattas mammoth lathe of 1848. Note thelocomotive driving wheel being turned. (From Farmer andMechanic, August 31, 1848.) notice found was in the report of the Little Miami issued in Decem-ber 1845, w^hich noted that Harkness was building a 13-t
. Bulletin - United States National Museum . ^ Prices recollection neatly summarizes Lattas early attempts, butthe local press and the annual reports of the Little Miami Railroadalso carried some valuable items on these engines. The earliest ^9 Edwin Pi-ice reminiscences [1829-igoi] (fragmentary MS., NationalMuseum, Washington, ). 12. Figure 4.—Lattas mammoth lathe of 1848. Note thelocomotive driving wheel being turned. (From Farmer andMechanic, August 31, 1848.) notice found was in the report of the Little Miami issued in Decem-ber 1845, w^hich noted that Harkness was building a 13-ton, 8-wheel,passenger engine. Construction of the first locomotive was thusbegun sometime before December 1845. Eight months later theCincinnati Daily Gazette of August 22, 1846, reported that Harknesshad two locomotives under construction for the Little Miami Rail-road. The Cincinnati, the first to be finished, was not placed on theroad until November 15, 1846. Since one engine was started some-time before December 1845, the time spent in its construction musthave been at least a year, although Price stated that the first enginebuilt by Harkness and Latta was completed in nine months. Couldit be, then, that there was an earlier engine, built before the Cincin-nati, which proved a total failure? And, assuming the existence ofan earli
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