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Caption: Dedication - Transportation Building Dedication Addresses
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carriage, and heavy throughout all its parts. France, the leader of the countries of the world, in the aotual movement by head of steam, was, within ten years, to take instruction - as were England and Germany likewise - from America in the augmenting of steam efficiency. Oliver Evans of Philadelphia was the teacher and his non-condensing engine of 1779 the object lesson. Of his fellow dreamers in England was a timid, non- assertive but far-seeing and intelligent man - William Murdoch. Adding to the deterrents to a forceful progress, through the unfortunate traits specified, was the further misfortune of his association as an assistant to Jftmes Watt at the latterfs Soho factory. It was Murdoch's bread and butter to keep his job. He was an adherent of high pressure. Watt, his chief, was the upholder of the low pressure prinoiple, the establisher of it to the point of practically making it a crime to construct and operate oontrarily. Watt would have none other than abject servility to his views by those under him, and whatever Murdoch did had to be done surreptitiously. Night and its shades were the recourse, and, slipping out into the darkness one fateful evening with his half sized working model, Murdoch had the time of his life. Not exactly the sort of a time one of his exceptionally retiring disposition would voluntarily have chosen, for hia machine got away from him and there was a made race for recovery
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