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One Of The Wonders Of Physics

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Day
22
Month
November
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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An experienced mechanic who was asked what he regarded as the most wonderful thing for general utility replied: "The tracking of a car wheel is the most wonderful thing to me in the whole range of science and invention. Here are two rails, up hill and down hill, ronnd the gharp curves and along false tangents, and upon them fly at more than a mile a minute, without jar or jostle, a dozen heavy cars drawn by an engine weighing 60 tons. Passengers realize no danger, yet there is only the little flange of a wheel between them and etemity. An inch and a half of steel turned up on the inner side of the wheel holds up the whole train as securely to the rails as if it were bolted there in grooves. "-

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Ann Arbor Argus
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