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THE GROWTH OF THE STEAM-ENGINE.
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introduction of steam-carriages on the common highway had become a favorite idea with engineers.[1]
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Fig. 35.—The West Point, 1831.
In December, 1833, about twenty steam-carriages and traction road-engines were running or were in course of construction in and near London.
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Fig. 36.—The South Carolina, 1831.
In our own country, the roughness of roads discouraged inventors, and, in Great Britain even, the successful introduction of road-locomotives, which seemed at one time almost an accomplished fact, finally
- ↑ "Road-Locomotives and Traction-Engines," Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1871.