Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-18

that more of its energy might have been
converted into useful work. One autnor.
IN treatise on locomotives, claims that
had some genius improved upon this early
device reciprocating engines would prob
ably never have been invented. but that
we would have had the advantage OF our
modern turbines much sooner
The museum possesses model OF
Isaac Newton in 1880. which was pro
PEELED by Jet of steam projected back
ward against the air, and a model of
Denis Papin's invention Of about the
same time The Investigations Of Savery
and Papin. and the successful expert
mental engines of Thomas Newcomer in
ZOO, with his piston and cylinder. soon
Followed. Newcomers ideas were i'm
proved by James Watt in 1869. who also
introduced the highpressure engines. the
condenser, and. later. the double-acting
engine. The development of the engine
was advanced by Cugnot, Evans. Horn
blower and Murdoch model Of the lat
ters engine is on display in the museum.
First American Motor Car.
AS the result of a wager made by.
resident Of Merthyr-Ty' dvil, an important
iron town of South Wales, that he could
convey load of iron nine miles by the
power of steam alone. Richard Trevithick
made the first engine to run Oh rails in
1909, and won the wager for his en-
pioyer the next year. Trevithick. it has
been claimed, copied the stationary en-
CINE built in 1900 by Oliver Evans. an
American. who was later ingenious
enough to attach wheels to a scow and
propel it by steam through the streets
OF Philadelphia In 1904. This curious
creation. called the "Oruktor Amphibolis,"
was the first motor car to run on Ameri-
can soil.
A model of Trevithicks engine is to
be seen in the National Museum, as is
also the model of the engine employed
Dy John stevens in 1925, and his orig
lnal tubular boiler Other models il
lustrate nearly all the types which be-
gan to put in their appearance soon
after 1925. when the "Stourbridge
to America, where it was the first en-
CINE to run on full-sized rails. The
museum possesses not only the model
or this historic engine. but the orig
inal engine itself. The other original
ful1-sized locomotive to be seen in the
museum is the John Bull" built by
George Stephenson & Sons of England
and shipped to America for use in 1881
on the Camden and Amboy railroad
1t IS interesting to recall that this old
reno or early railroading in America
made a round trip under its own steam
In 1893 from New York to Chicago,
where 1T was exhibited at the worlds
Columbia exposition.
AHois the mOQelS OF early and his
toric locomotives are: George Steph
ensons Rocket" built in 1929: the
3. & o. engine Tom Thumb" built by
Peter Cooper in 1929: the grasshopper
type engine, Arabian" of 1881: the
Best Friend" used in 1S3O-31; Bald
wins odd Ironsides,' constructed in
1882: the "Sandusky." built in 1897:
and models Of engines made by Asa
Whitney in 1870 and G. A. Nichols in
1S4s. Besides the two locomotives and
dol
in the exhibit coach and car models,
sections of rails, spikes, wheels and
models and parts of valves, pistons and
other early patented accessories per-
tanning to locomotives and railroads,
all of which go far toward completing
an absorbing chapter of graphic his
tory In connection with this interesting
and important commercial development