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1.—What is the greatest weight, in proportion to its own weight, which any Locomotive Steam Engine has been found capable of drawing upon a Rail Road, and at what velocity?

In this experiment the Engine was allowed to traverse a given space, to put the train of carriage into their proper velocity before the time was noted, the time was then marked until the velocity was again checked at the further end of the stage. This will explain the difference between the two distances stated in the experiment; the one was the whole distance from the commencement to the cat