The history of the first locomotives in America. From original ...

PREFACE,
The author of this work, being familiar with rail-
roads from their first construction, has, at much labor
and expense, collected all the important facts in relar
tion to their commencement and to the development
of the locomotive-machine in this country. These facts
have been obtained from the living witnesses who were
the actors ia those early events, and are presented in
their own language in these pages. While making no
pretensions to literary merit, he claims to have em-
bodied in this volume all the facts of the early history
of locomotives, in such a complete form as to satisfy
the most skeptical. He therefore presents his work to
the public with full confidence that his efforts to rescue
from oblivion the names of some of the most distia-
guished pioneers in promoting the industrial progress
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