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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 Digitized by Microsoft®
COMPETITION FOR PRIZES. 67 to thirty miles an hour, mucli to the delight and gratifi- cation of the spectators. The judges then ordered the Kocket to be in readiness the following morning to go through its trial according, to the prescribed conditions. Fig. 6. THE SANS-PAEEIL LOCOMOTIVE. On the' morning of October 8, 1829, the Kocket was again upon the road for the contest. The fire-box was filled with coke, the fire lighted, and the steam raised imtil it lifted the safety-valve loaded to the pressure of fifty pounds to the square inch. These preparations occupied fifty-seven minutes. The engine being start- ed on its journey, dragged after it thirteen tons' weight Digitized by Microsoft®
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10 HISTOET OF THE FIRST LOCOMOTITES
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