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The series illustrating the history of the American locomotive has been very materially strengthened by the addition of several valuable models, among them being:

Trevithick's Locomotive, 1804, (model). This was the first steam locomotive to help man and was designed and constructed by Richard Trevithick. It ran for several months in 1804 between Panydarren Works and the Glamorgan Canal, near Aberdare Junction, Wales, hauling cars laden with coal and pig-iron.

John Steven's experimental locomotive, 1825 (model). The first locomotive built in America of which there is a reliable record. The original locomotive built by John Stevens has a multi-tubular boiler, and was experimented with on a circular track at Hoboken, N.J., during the years 1825, 1826, 1827 and 1828. This model was constructed in the National Museum Work Shops, from information furnished by MR. Francis B. Stevens, (a grandson of John Stevens) a distinguished mechanical engineer of Hoboken,N.J.,