Keep in mind that in those days, to be in the cab of a working mainline steam engine had to be on a par with a ride in a jet fighter today. |
In November 1839, a steam engine manufactured by H. R. Dunham of New York City replaced teams of horses as the main source of motive power. |
The steam engine with six bogies arrived from Shornur, through a metre-gauge track. |
She ran on a 700-horsepower steam engine and had four jury masts on which four trysails and a jib could be set for emergencies. |
They'd missed out on the steam engine and virtually every other scientific and industrial advance. |
The steam engine had symbolized the First Industrial Revolution and the electric motor and internal combustion engine the Second. |