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Re: Stupid question about steam engines
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 6 Apr 2000 23:15:30 GMT
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> > ...who was it who invented the steam engine and the railway system?....who
> was it who made the fastest
> _steam engine_
> in the world (record in 1938 and yet to be broken)?
Wellllll....now, my handy dandy books show Mallard at 126 MPH and...
In 1906 a steam powered car built by the Stanley brothers of Newtown,
Massachusetts, and driven by Fred Marriott, set a new world land speed record
of _127.66 mph_ at Ormond Beach (now called Daytona Beach), Florida
It was only bettered in when Bob Barber, another American, raised the record
to 145.607 MPH in a modern steam turbine car.
So, regardless of if you call a turbine a engine, a car has the steam speed
record rather than a railway engine.
> Admirers? Yeah, we are a regular Mutual Adoration Society. Please, you are
> still sore over the back to back losses to us in the American Revolution and
> the war of 1812.
Someone must not have told that to us _Canadians_, who fought the Yankee's to a
standstill in the War of 1812...and were still English. All the War of 1812
was was a stupid extension of some of the European wars.
James P
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| Jonathan Reynolds <scorch@tinyworld.co.uk> wrote in message news:FsM7IH.An2@lugnet.com... (...) conversation...Hmmm... (...) was (...) to (...) As they no longer make steam engines as the industry standard, it is unlikely to be broken. (...) I (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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