Railroad-^Continued 



Mohawk & Hudson, 164, 174 



Morris & Essex, 185, 189 



New Castle & Frenchtown, 144 



New York & Erie, 1 68, 171 



Pennsylvania, 154 



Pennsylvania Central, 150, 167 



Philadelphia, Germantown & Norristown, 151 



Philadelphia & Columbia, 147-148, 149, 150, 



'5 1 , 155) >5 6 , l6 °, 190-19' 

 portage railroad, 143, 147, 148, 152, 153-155, 



'57, '59 

 Richmond & Fredericksburg, 134 

 Western & Atlantic, 191 



railroad rail types, 148, 149, 151 



Railway Exposition of 1883, 180 



Rainhill trials, 70 



Rawlings, George, builds fire engine bodies, 44, 49; 

 makes molds, 107 



Redheffer, Charles, h's perpetual motion machine, 

 79-86; shows machine, 79-80, 82; committee 

 condemns, 79; Fulton exposes, 79 n; GES de- 

 scribes, 80-83; Coleman Sellers exposes, 84; 

 views Lukens' model, 85 



Reeder of Baltimore, 181 



Reese, commissioner, of Barbadoes, 1 1 1 , 114 



Reeside, James (mail contractor), 144 n, 145-146 



Resolution Fire Company, 4, 8 



Reynold and Sharpless (screw makers), 31 n 



Richards, Samuel (foundryman), 40 n 



Richmond, \*a., fire engines for, 6, 44, 49 



Richmond & Fredericksburg Railroad, 134 



Rittenhouse, David, xvi, 37, 82, 121 



rivets, 8-1 1 



roads, condition in 1808, 143; Philadelphia to Pitts- 

 burgh, 144 



Robert, Nicholas Louis {See under Robert and Didot) 



Robert and Didot (paper makers), 104, 116, 130 



Roberts, Joseph (schoolmaster), xv, 54 



Roberts, Richard, planing machine of, 108, 1 12, 116 



Roberts, Solomon W., 54, 147 n, 153; schoolmate of 

 GES, xv, on portage railroad, 143, 154 



Roberts. William Milnor, 54, 147 n, 153; schoolmate 

 of GES, xv; on portage railroad, 143, 154; on 

 locomotives for portage, 152, 155 



Robinson (paper maker), 95, 129 



Robinson, Moncure (engineer), 134 



Robinson, Wirt, in England, 134 



Roebling, John, wire rope of, 154 n 



Rogers, Thomas, counterbalanced wheel, 165; visits 

 Cardington, 173-174; portrait, 174 



rolling mill, for gold, 15; in mint, 66, 67-68, 73 



Roosevelt, Nicholas, 38n; engine of, 39 and 41 (illustr.) 



Rowntree fire engine, 18, 23 



Royal Society of Arts, 20 n, 117 



Royal Society of London, 102, 117 



Rubican's restaurant, 20 



Rumford, Count, 66 



Rush and Muhlenberg, 53, 112; works, 32 and n, 

 67 n; mint engine, 72, 75 (illustr.) 



Sampson, 1 72 {See also locomotive, Sellers) 



Saul, Mrs. (schoolmistress), xv 



Saxton, Joseph, 77, 88, 109, 121, 133; biogr. notes, 

 52-53; and Lukens, 57, 60; mint balance, 57, 

 62 n, 78 (illustr.); and rifle incident, 58-60; 

 at Maudslay works, 1 1 1 ; locomotive differential 

 pulley, 131, 132; electric generator, 131, 134 

 (illustr.); motor, 132; during Civil War, 190, 

 192; portrait, 192 



Scott, Sir Walter, and Donkin, 109-110, 119; death of, 

 1 10 



screw, press, 31-35; for dividing engine, 117, 121; 

 American and English, 126 



Sellers, Ann, xix, 89 



Sellers, Anna, keeps house for GES, xviii 



Sellers, Charles (brother of GES), 29, 70, 87, 143; in 

 Philadelphia, xvii; loses tooth, 30; in Sellers & 

 Pennock shops, 43, 46, 50; and mint machinery, 

 73; makes watermarks, 95; marriage of, 107; 

 at Cardington, 160; and John Brandt, 169; at 

 trial of America, 172, 177, 178 {See also loco- 

 motive, Sellers) 



Sellers, Coleman (1781-1834; father of GES), 70, 87, 

 131; biogr. notes, xiv, xvii; portrait, xiv; at fire, 7; 

 designs "Hydraulion," 6; and leather hose, 2,8; 

 and Perkins, 12, 13, 22-24; and Murray's 

 capstan, 21 ; home workshop, 29-30; in Sellers & 

 Pennock shops, 43, 46-48; to Richmond, 49-50; 

 and Redheffer, 80, 82, 83, 84; visits Gilpins, 

 97-98; card and paper machinery, 160, 169; 

 and Brandt, 169; and Davis, 181; leather- 

 splitting, 185 



Sellers, Coleman (1827-1907), 55 n, 79 n 



Sellers, David, 8, 89 



Sellers, Elizabeth, sister of GES, 108, 141 



Sellers, George Escol, portrait, iv (fronds.); biogr. 

 notes, xiv-xviii; genealogy, xix; boyhood shop 

 practice, 29-30; mint machinery, 62, 71-74; 

 visits England in 1832, 87-88; on Portage rail- 

 road, 159; runs Cardington Locomotive Works, 

 160; with Brandt on Lancaster, 167 {See also 

 locomotive, Sellers) 



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