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HISTORY OP TITS LOCOMOTIVE Address by Mr* J. G. Pangborn, Assistant to the President. Baltimore ft Ohio Railroad, Baltimore, Maryland. The stuff of which dreams are made. As old as the mysteries of the brain1s aotion is the trend to initially so regard the broaching of such as is not already within human ken. The member of the British Parliament who declared that when a locomotive was made that would remain on rails at a speed of ten miles an hour he would eat one of its driving wheels for his breakfast had antecedent as he has had trailing prototypes. So, before Richard Trevithick, as well as after him, there have appeared others paralleling the pathos of his self rendered requiem: "I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, even by the great engineer James Watt, who said I deserved hanging for bringing into use for the locomotive high pressure steam. the public. This so far has been my reward from However much I may be straightened in pecuniary circumstances the great honor of being a useful subject can never be taken from me, and which to me far exceeds riches". Suggestive of a studied effect in light and shade not comporting with this presence may be the thought as to Ik
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