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Title: Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hotchkin, Samuel Fitch, 1833-1912
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., P. W. Ziegler & co.
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made bookbinderstools, which heretofore had been imported. They also made rollers for calico-printing, and improved the old style largely. In 1829 they brought their first steam-engine, which did not satisfy Mr.Baldwin, and he built one himself from his own plan. This was the beststationary .engine then built in this country. It worked over 40 years, drivingfinally the entire boiler-shop at the Broad street manufactory. The enginegave the firm a reputation and they led the country in making stationaryengines. In 1830 the Camden and Amboj Railroad Company imported an enginewhich they strove to keep from inspection, but Baldwin and Franklin Peale,who owned the Philadelphia Museum, found a M-^ay to see it in the warehouse.Mr. Baldwin examined it and enthusiastically declared that he could make one^as his face glowed with ardor at the thought of his new work. He made amodel for Mr. Peales Museum where tracks were laid in the old Arcade in > en o oo owo o H W J3.*o > HW73
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APPENDIX. 535 1831; from 4 to 8 passengers were carried. The exhibition was a success, firstshowing Philadelphians that steam could act as a transporter. In 1832 Baldwin built a locomotive for the Philadelphia and Germantownrailwaj^, for $4000, the machine being made in six mouths, and during its con-struction the shop was moved from Minor street to Jayne, then styled LodgeAlley, to where the Collins & McLeester Type Foundry now stands. Though the engine succeeded, the railway company insisted on a reductionof $500 in the price. In the Daily Advertiser it was stated that the enginewould go daily in fair weather with passenger cars, and on rainy days horseswould be used, wet rails caused too much labor for the engine. Thus began the Baldwin Locomotive Works, now known over the world andable to produce a locomotive daily. In 1835 the shops went to Broad andHamilton streets. Mr. Baldwin made many improvements in locomotives,being an intense student of mechanics. He was noted for indu

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