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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc.) for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt Print. Off.
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Figure 44.—John Hancock photographed during o recent appeoronce. Figure 45.—John Quincy Adams as restored for exhibition at Dayton, Ohio. Thisis the oldest complete American-built locomotive in existence. Metal water tankis not original.
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B a O R.R. ^g^-^- ..r~-^—^ exhibit in the National Museum (figure 43). Th.^ John Han-cock, on the other hand, was recently given back its originalname (figure 44) after having carried the incorrect appella-tion Thomas Jefferson for about 60 years. Many railroad his-torians of recent times have apparently not been aware ofthe name-switching involving these two locomotives, whichare now part of the permanent collection in the B & OMuseum. Th.^ John Quincy Adams (figure 45), recently restored andrepainted and no longer referred to as the Traveller, is theoldest complete American-built locomotive in existence. These grasshoppers burned anthracite, as did the York.The cylinders of the newer two of the survivors have a 22-inch stroke and a 12y2-inch bore (according to the 10th an-nual report of the B & O, for 1836, p. 22) and originallyoperated on a steam pressure of 50 pounds per square inch.With their thoroughly overhauled boilers, they now operateon 75. The bore of the JoAn Qui

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