Rambling observations on books, history, movies, transit, obsolete technology, baseball, and anything else that crosses my mind.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Horse-Power Locomotive #1 - July 18, 2007
Around 1830, the pioneering Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which had used horses to pull its trains, tried a locomotive in which the horse walked on a treadmill, which drove the wheels through gearing.
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