The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.Byrn, Edward W. (Edward Wright)
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The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Byrn, Edward W. (Edward Wright)
Inventions -- History; Inventions -- History -- 19th century
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The present capacity of the Baldwin works is one thousand locomotives a
year, and they have built up to this date about fifteen thousand
locomotives, or nearly one-half of all the locomotives in use in the
United States.
The successive steps of the development in detail of the various
features of the locomotive are distributed over a long period, and are
somewhat difficult to trace. The turning of the exhaust steam into the
smoke stack was done by Trevithick as early as 1804, but its effect was
greatly increased by Hackworth about 1827, who augmented its power by
directing it into the chimney through a narrow orifice. This and the
tubular locomotive boiler by Seguin in 1828, the link-motion in 1832,
the steam whistle by Stephenson in 1833, the Giffard injector in 1858,
and the Westinghouse air brake of 1869, are the most prominent features
of the locomotive.
[Illustration: FIG. 103.--STEPHENSON’S LINK MOTION.]
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