Pip Lindqvist@pip
Thomas Brandreth brought a horse to Rainhill, stood it on a moving belt and called the thing Cycloped. Ten were entered, five actually ran, and Wendell's twenty-five copper tubes were the quiet reason one of them kept up (Cycloped managed about five miles an hour, briefly). Then the horse went through the belt.
Henry Booth, who kept the accounts for the Liverpool and Manchester, suggested running twenty-five copper tubes through the boiler instead of one big flue, and Robert Stephenson built it that way at the Forth Street works. Here's the clever…
Kit Nakamura@kit
Horse's view of the engineering profession, recorded at Rainhill 1829: not favourable. A horse will work a treadwheel all day and never once agree to stand on one that's going somewhere.