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 the earliest if not the most spectacular instances of the success of American genius abroad."

A horse-power locomotive was another invention, prior in date to the sailing car. "A horse was placed in a car and made to walk on an endless apron or belt, and to communicate motion to the wheels, as in the horse-power machines of the present day. The machine worked indifferently well; but, on one occasion, when drawing a car filled with editors and other representatives of the press, it ran into a cow, and the passengers, having been tilted out and rolled down an embankment, were naturally enough unanimous in condemning the contrivance. And so the horse-power car, after countless bad jokes had been perpetrated on the cowed editors, passed out of existence, and probably out of mind."

The fate of the railway hung suspended on the successful solving of the question of motive power. Peter Cooper's locomotive