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THE GROWTH OF THE STEAM-ENGINE.
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introduction of steam-carriages on the common highway had become a favorite idea with engineers.[1]
Fig. 35.—The West Point, 1831.
In December, 1833, about twenty steam-carriages and traction road-engines were running or were in course of construction in and near London.
Fig. 36.—The South Carolina, 1831.
In our own country, the roughness of roads discouraged inventors, and, in Great Britain even, the successful introduction of road-locomotives, which seemed at one time almost an accomplished fact, finally
- ↑ "Road-Locomotives and Traction-Engines," Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1871.
