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turning up that would keep his head above water financially. He did, however, succeed in 1787 in getting a patent in Pennsylvania on his high pressure engine and put one together in his Philadelphia shop. By 1790 the Yankee Read had so far progressed with his plans for the adaptation of steam to road locomotion as to secure a patent - the original papers being still existent - and make a model as an exemplification of the proposed working. This, the harbinger of the steam carriage or automobile on the American Continent, was devised for the transport of freight and might, not at all inaptly, be spoken of as the parent of the heavy delivery trucks that now a century and a quarter later have beoome common on our streets. In the Read of 1780 was the primary introduction of It was copper and brass tubes - the multitubular boiler. the pioneer formulation, through an actually outlined plan, of steam propulsion on land in America. Read couldn't make a go of it in enlisting influence or capital in the steam wagon or, to any material extent, in other inventions, of whi ho was very prolific, and, becoming distrusted at the lack of appreciation of the emanations of his head piece, he turned as a by-play to politics. and never afterward heard from. He was elected to Congress In England James Watt was still having everything
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