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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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3511). It wasmade in the Museum in about 1900 by C. R. Luscombe. The Arabian was similar in design to the three grass-hoppers that have survived, but differed from them inmany small ways. Its two cylinders, for example, had a boreand stroke of 12 and 22 inches. This bore was fractionallyless than that of the other three. Also, its weight with fueland water, 7V2 tons, was about a ton less than that of anyof the others. The extent to which the Museums model represents theseslight differences between the Arabian and the grass-hoppers that followed it cannot now be determined. Mostof these differences would be impossible to reproduce onsuch a small scale. It is entirely possible that the model rep-resented no particular grasshopper, and the name Arabianmay have been selected by chance. A detailed description of the construction of the Arabianand a discussion of its performance characteristics appear inthe eighth (1834) and ninth (1835) annual reports of theBaltimore and Ohio Rail Road Co.
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Figure 65.—Model of Davis and Gartner Arabian, 1 834. 82 Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor Locomotive Sandusky, 1837 The Sandusky, first locomotive built by the firm of Rogers,Ketchum & Grosvenor of Paterson, N. J., is represented inthe Museums collection by a 2-foot-long nonoperable model(figure 66) of the locomotive and its tender. The model(USNM 180245) was built for the Museum in 1888 byD. Ballauf Notice of the firms intention to produce locomotives wasgiven in the American Railroad Journal for December 24,1836, and the original Sandusky was constructed during thefollowing year. Intended for the New Jersey Railroad andTransportation Co., it was built to the gauge of that road—58 inches. However, after a trial trip on October 6 betweenPaterson and New Brunswick, it was purchased for the MadRiver and Lake Erie Railroad by that roads president,J. H.James of Urbana, Ohio. It was delivered to Sandusky, Ohio, on November 17, atwhich time not a foot of track had been laid. The engi

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