Fig. 118.—Fisher’s Steam-Carriage.
Steam-carriages for passengers are now rarely built. [Fig. 118] represents that designed by Fisher about 1870 or earlier. It was only worked experimentally.
Fig. 119.—Road and Farm Locomotive.
The [above] is an engraving of a road and farm locomotive as built by one of the most successful among several British firms engaged in this work.
The capacity of these engines has been determined by experiment by the author in the United States, and abroad by several distinguished engineers.
The author made a trial of one of these engines at South Orange, N. J., to determine its power, speed, and convenience of working and manœuvring. The following were the principal dimensions: