The engine running idle, I commenced very soon the exhibition for which I had made all this preparation. That was to hold the governor down by pulling the end of the lever up and letting the engine fly; which it did without a jar or a sound, only phantoms of the cross-head and connecting-rod being visible. That was my daily amusement and must have been repeated many hundred times in the course of the exposition, and of course always attracted a crowd. We had no means of counting the speed, but I judged it to be more than 2000 turns per minute. When I released the governor and the speed fell gradually to 500 turns, it appeared to every one as if the engine were going to stop. But the governor never reacted, and soon the eye became accustomed to the slower speed. This presented quite a curious phenomenon. The connecting-rod was especially adapted to this enormous speed, by being made of the form already shown, and which I afterwards adopted for all my engines. This engine never gave any trouble, and was sold, I think to Ducommen & Co., the purchasers of the large engine. The electric light with its engines was installed at the South Foreland Lighthouse, on the Shakespeare Cliff, east of Dover, if I remember rightly. We brought nothing back to England with us. I went to Paris a few days before the opening of the exposition, and found my main engine already in running order, installed next to the Whitworth exhibit of tools, and selected by the imperial commission as one of the engines employed to give motion to the machinery exhibited. By an imperial decree, the opening ceremonial of the exhibition was to take place on Monday, April 2, at 2 P.M., and everything was to be absolutely completed before that hour. The engines were to have been tested the previous Saturday. Every engine in the building was ready, but the imperial commission itself was behind. There was no steam. The first interview I had with the superintendent of the British machinery department was on this Saturday, when he came around to notify the several English engine exhibitors to be in readiness to run their engines the next day, Sunday, in order to make sure that there should be no hitch on Monday, I told him I should not run my engine on Sunday. “Very well,” said he, “we will run it for you,” and stalked off. Before going away I took out the pin at the end of the governor lever connecting the governor with the valve motion and put it in my pocket. Never heard any reproof, put the pin back on Monday, and when they gave us steam the engine started off as if it had always been running, and continued to do so until the signal for shutting down at 5 o’clock. I had my hand on the wheel of the stop-valve to close it, when suddenly all the valve-rods of the engine bent and tangled up, and the exclamation was heard on all sides, “The high-speed engine has come to grief the very first day.”