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I Stephenson and Booth. The latter the Seoretary of the Liverpool & Manchester Road who had slipped over to Paris, seen there the "Sequin1* with its multitubular boiler, come home and had the "Rocket" altered from the double flue to the multitubular; alBo making other radical changes. This is history, as, likewise, that Booth for his partkn the remodeling of the engine was awarded half of the prize. The "Rocket*s" subsequent career was not brilliant, it being soon relegated for more or less intermittent operation on a back-country colliery tramway. George Stephenson was not the originator of any essential of the locomotive. T*«C! A careful and painstaking search throughout the files of the British Patent Office iled to disclose one patent taken out by him in his own me alone; always with an associate. ter of loco tive it.self him fi rst compel ling It was" as the pro- tive operation, not the Father of the Locohat he should have been placed in history. k foremost will the honor ever be accorded acognition of the feasibility of the conduct by steam power. When skepticism and dis- trust, very rife; when sly predicate Loneer of the ipon his own failures, were iglish railways, the Liverto abandon all thought of roughout the Kingdom the o further experimenting at s < is indomitable determination pool ft Mane hostel-, had decide operation b7 loc<motives and universal oninioii was adverse i ruinous a o oet, Stephenson b}
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