Nathan Read His Invention of the Multi Tubular Boiler And Portable High Pressure
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2 1 Ante, p. 72. 2 The following brief account of Murdock s experiment is quite amusing : NATHAN READ AND THE STEAM-ENGINE. 89 Prior to 1790, when Read petitioned Congress 1 to secure a patent for his invention of land carriages to be driven by steam, no successful application of steam- power had ever been directed to such a purpose except to meet with insurmountable difficulties, and be rejected as a thing impracticable. 2 The idea that it was capable of giving wings to the traveller, and tran...sporting over land, as it now does, the commerce of nations, was at that time wholly new, and to the mass of mankind was looked upon as a matter equally mysterious and vision ary. Even the members of Congress, the congregated assemblage of the wisdom and intelligence of the coun try, were so skeptical on the subject that when Read s petition for a patent for the application of steam to land carriages was read by the clerk of the House, a general smile was excited among the members, a different look entirely from that now seen, in the earnest debates of Congress on the several projects for opening lines of railway to the Pacific.
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