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RETR0SPFX:T and prospect in transportation — THE DE WITT CLINTON TRAIN 



AND THE GYRO-CAR. 



The Dc Witt Clinton engine, with its nrrhaic roaches, represents the earliest 

 tyi>c of railway transjiortation in America. The (Wro-car, two views of which 

 are given, is the working mtnlel of a single-rail vehicle exhibited in Fngland by Mr. 

 I^ouis Brennan in iqoy. It is balancetl by an ingenious gyroscopic mechanism, 

 which its inventor U-lieves will prove ccjually successful when a|)plie<l to vehicles 

 on a comm<Trial -^rale. 



