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Figure 65. — Baldwin Locomotive, 1834 to about 1840. Although this is a 

 drawing of Locomotive No. 125, it is typical of locomotives built by Matthias 

 VV. Baldwin from about 1834. The drawing is in the division of transportation, 

 U.S. National Museum. USNM 30J506; Smithsonian photo 26jgg-B. 



screw; the only thing automatic about the machine 

 was reversing the screw to run back the bedplate at 

 an increased speed. Both the clown and cross feed 

 of the tool were by hand. Primitive as this machine 

 was, it did good work, if it did take its time to do 

 it; it was a great advance from the hammer, cold- 

 chisel and file. 202 



202 The hammer, cold-chisel, and file were still widely used 

 (see note 100 above). A remarkable variation, used in Hoe 

 printing press works in 1834 for planing ribs of press beds, 



In the latter part of the summer of 1834, James 

 Cameron, brother of the Hon. Simon Cameron, at 

 that time chairman of the Board of Canal Commis- 

 sioners, called on us and said he had been informed 

 by John Brandt that we had the above described 

 lathe and planer, both well adapted for locomotive 



involved hauling a smith's plane, similar 111 appearance to a 

 carpenter's plane, along the work by a winch. See Stephen 

 D. Tucker, History of R Hot ^ Co., V™ I ■"■' (typescript copy 

 in Library of Congress), < 1890, p. 7. 



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