Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-02-16
CHAPTER XIII.
THE WORLD MOVES ON TO GREATER
ACCOMPLISHMENTS.


systematic monetary Subjects they had no
conception Of the active forces later en-
ployed and developed to high state Of per-
lection working entire changes in travel
and transportation, in trade and commerce,
and in manufacture and production Of ev
cry kind and description, revolutionizing
the condition of mankind and bringing
great prosperity to the nation, connecting
and joining all the states in one harmoni-
Gus national unity.
The most important one of these forces,
no doubt, because it was the first to de-
mand and receive the earnest attention Of
man. is steam.
Steam as force which, when confined,
developed motive power, is claimed, his
torically, to have been recognized and
known in the third century B. c. This
force, though all the time present and con-
stantly appealing to man for recognition
in the escaping steam Of boiling water was
only vaguely understood and cautiously
admitted though it did not escape entirely
mans observation, but attracted his at
tention and led him occasionally to seri-
ously attempt solution and demonstrate
it's utility during a period of more than
two thousand years without practical re-
suit
Watt, an Englishman, had his attention
as motive power and in the winter of
1763-64 began special investigation of the
subject; and in 1881, 1882. 1884 and 1885
obtained patents for a series of inventions,
the purpose of which was to utilize steam
in operating machinery. It will be noticed
that this was at the time Of and little
after, the close of the revolutionary war.
The first successful locomotive engine was
invented by Richard Trevithick, England,
in 1902, and was operated on railroad
in 1904 It's capacity was limited to haul
ing ten tons of iron at the rate of six miles
per hour It did not occur even to the
most sanguine then that the Locomotive en-
CINE they had successfully operated and
which seemed to them great achievement
over the horse draft would be improved
to the extent Of developing the enormous
power and speed known to us in the mod
ern fast railroad travel and long trains of
cars, transporting merchandise of every
description from place to place in many
parts of the world any one of which cars
would hold more than five times the weight
carried by the whole train drawn by this
first locomotive. Here then was force
existing in the presence of all men and
known to the world for more than two
thousand years eluding all the time the
Ingenuity of men now exhibited in this
locomotive Of, comparatively speaking in
significant capacity, mere toy, when it
might have been giant assisting him in
many of his greater undertakings.
We little consider how slow has been
the growth and development of the vast
number and various kinds of utilities now
assisting man everywhere in the civilized
world, and is still pressing forward, fore
ing it's advantages upon every other people
of every other civilization than our own.
have been thing yet to be thought out,
invented, constructed, improved and adapt
ed to travel and transportation, had it not
been that some coal miners in England
sometime during the seventeenth century
in order to haul coal to the banks Of the
river for the convenience of transportation
by water and delivery to the trade by the