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Poor Do Cauxl He was, by the way, a Marquis, as was, also, the English nobleman who having in some manner learned of the Frenchman's alleged aberration, crossed the British Channel to learn more about it at close range. He succeeded in, as we say now-a-days, getting next to De Caux; his influence scouring him ingress to the place of the latter's confinement and an intercourse that eventuated in so confusing the record of it that what were really De Caux's ideas and what were Worcester's are past distinguishing. Whichever of the two should have the honor to his memory of foreseeing the possibilities of steam as applicable to locomotion must ever remain undetermined - the Prenoh continuing the meanwhile to claim it for De Qaux and the English for Worcester. At the time neither country took any stock in the utterances of either men; De Gaux pining away and dying in his padded cell and Worcester appealing in vain for recognition as a prophet - the old, old story of being without honor where best known. Not so much wonder, all this, pathetio as It may be from our view point. Papin did not hit upon the safety valve until 1681, and Moreland that year in an audience before the Queen of England grandiloquently phrased his discovery "a new ford* of fire." as The condensing engine was then the acme of development and Papinfs producing a vacuum by the condensation of steam in 1695 was naturally held to be a narvdoue M
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