1. The invention of the railroads began with the invention of the steam engine, the idea of which originated many years earlier. James Watt's improvement on the Newcomen's engine allowed the steam engine not only go up and down, but to turn gearwheels. 2. In 1781 Watt designed and produced a rotary-motion steam engine. This new engine could be applied to many different types of machinery. 3. In 1804 Richard Trevithick, an English engineer invented a steam locomotive, and his invention brought together the idea of iron rails and the steam engine. 4. In 1882 Edison installed the first durable electric lights in his own labs, and later built the first public power station. However, Edison's DC current system had only a three-mile range.
With the rest of the boys came up to laugh at Tom, was the same.
... When Ben was tired, Tom sold the next turn to Billy Fisher for a used kite, and when he got tired of bleach, johnny Miller bought the place for a dead rat with a rope, to make it easier to turn, etc. etc., hour by hour. By mid-day the poor boy close to poverty, That he became a rich man and was smothered in luxury...
... Tom and I have spent all this time doing nothing and having fun, and the fence was covered with lime in three layers! If he didn't run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in town...