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coming his way in the practical monopoly ho was holding in steam engine building. Through hie patents he exacted tribute from all essaying to become competitors and in the exertion of his masterful influence prevented high pressure from securing recognition as meriting development. He on one oooasion did defer a bit to the growing sentiment that steam should be made to do duty other than in pumping water out of coal mines, by designing a locomotive, the drawing and specifications describing of which are of the records preserved in the British Patent Office. The outer boiler was to be of wooden staves bound with iron bands, the inner of wrought iron, and the steam pressure was to be seven pounds to the square inch. Near Watt in Cornwall was a man who had vainly end€ avored t bvade his patents: tenaciously seeking to find around them and do something. Richard Tre- a way t o g v3L b U i - U K wa sis name, and every thought of him is as of a fitly and much so mentally. A Heroules in build ga.ant ph ys and possessed of the strength of a Samson he was the idol of the miners to which class he originally belonged. The tales of his prowess with his bare hands in twisting horse shoes out of shape; of his bending iron bars over his forearm and of superhuman power omifting and striking are yet tradition al in Cornwall. But infinitely more enduring is Richard Trevithiok fame as the Father of the Locomotive. Fbr such he was -
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