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

6& HISTORY OF THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVES IN AMERICA.
Novelty was next tried. It was a very complicated
macMne, carrying tlie water and. fuel upon tlie same
wheels as the engine, and the whole weighed three tons
one hundred lbs. On account of some difficulty in de-
termining the load she was to draw, she was not tested
like the Kocket, but was run over the road, making
sometimes twenty-four mUes per hour.
Fig. 5.
THE NOVELTY LOOOMOTIVB.
The Sans-pareil was next tried, but no particular
experiment was made on that day.
The contest was postponed until the following day,
but, before the judges arrived upon the ground, the
liellows for creating the draught or blast in the Novelty
gave way, and it was incapable of going through its
performance. A defect was also discovered in the
boiler of the Sans-pareil, and time was allowed to get
it repaired. Meantime, Mr. Stephenson, to lessen the
disappointment to the vast crowd assembled to witness
these experiments by the delay, brought out the Rocket
and attached it to a coach containing thirty persons,
and ran it along the road at the rate of from twenty-six
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