The Locomotive Engine and Its Development: A Popular Treatise on the Gradual Improvements Made in Railway Engines Between 1803 and 1894 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The author having mentioned in previous editions that he had never recorded the speed of a train at a higher rate than 799 miles an hour, he takes the opportunity to say that during the summer of 1893, on the occasion of the Chicago Exhibition, while ridin g on American locomotives, he timed speeds of 80 and 818 miles an hour; and since his return to this country he has also timed a mile in 44 seconds, or 818 miles an hour. Probably, therefore, a mile an hour has been added. To the attainments of the higher class of locomo tives since the speed of 81 miles an hour was run on the Bristol and Exeter Railway in 1853.

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