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that small fire tubes of brass or copper would the more rapid transmission of heat to the water, lUi ho birth of the multitubular boiler in the year 1785. It is well said that there is nothing new under the sun, and strikingly illustrated in the instance of the automobile. In oonoeption it is older than the locomotive by a soore of years. The first dream of a power moving vehicle for passenger carrying was that of William Symington of England and in 1786 he fashioneda working model to demonstrate its practicability. Common roads were of course the contem- plated arena as there were no rails those days save the rude iron capped wooden ways of the coal collieries* Simultaneously with Symington*s expression of this innovating idea abroad, Oliver Evans on our side of the Atlantic appealed to the Pennsylvania Legislature for permission to introduce the steam carriage in that State; but he was turned down without ceremony as a preposterously presuming individual to think of such a thing. Maryland, however, was more tolerant of- him than was his native State, for her Legislature aoquiesoed in his wish for what was denied him at home. Money not being forthcoming for anything BO crotchety as he proposed, Evans had to be content going on with the more humdrum things with which his name is connected? flour mill machinery, boat building, anything in fact
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