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One
of the entries for the Rainhill Trials,
the Novelty, was built by John Ericsson
and John Braithwaite. The design was based on road steam carriages
being built at that time. The Novelty had a upright boiler
(the picture below shows one of the men putting coke into it) and
a horizontal boiler pipe that ran the length of the locomotive beneath
the footplate. Another feature of the design was that the drive from
the vertical cylinders was via bell cranks and connecting rods to
the wheels. The Novelty was built in six weeks and had not
been tried out before the competition organised by the Liverpool
& Manchester Railway took place in October, 1829.
Weighing only 2 tons 3 cwt, the Novelty was much smaller than
the other entries. It was also the quickest and reached speeds of
28 mph during the trials that took place on the first day. This was
4 mph faster than the Rocket managed
during the opening session. On the second day the boiler pipe became
overheated and was damaged. To reach it for repairs, Ericsson and
Braithwaite had to partially dismantle the boiler. The steam-tight
joints had to be made with a cement which normally took a week to
harden. Braithwaite and Ericsson had to go out the next day and not
surprisingly when the Novelty reached 15 mph the joints started
to blow. The damage was considerable and the Novelty was forced
to retire from the competition.
The Novelty, The Mechanics Magazine (1829)
(1)
The Mechanics Magazine (10th October, 1829)
The next engine that exhibited its powers was "The Novelty"
of Messrs. Braithwaite and Ericsson. The great lightness of this engine,
(it is about one half lighter than Mr. Stephenson's) its compactness,
and its beautiful workmanship, excited universal admiration; a sentiment
speedily changed into perfect wonder, by its truly marvellous performances.
It was resolved to try first its speed merely; that is at what rate
it would go, carrying only its compliment of coke and water, with
Messrs. Braithwaite and Ericsson to manage it. Almost at once, it
darted off at the amazing velocity of twenty-eight miles an hour,
and it actually did one mile in the incredibly short space of one
minute and 53 seconds! Neither did we observe any appreciable falling
off in the rate of speed; it was uniform, steady, and continuous.
Had the railway been completed, the engine would, at this rate, have
gone nearly the whole way from Liverpool to Manchester within the
hour; and Mr. Braithwaite has, indeed, publicly offered to stake a
thousand pounds, that as soon as the road is opened, he will perform
the entire distance in that time.
(2)
The
Mechanics Magazine
(14th October, 1829)
It appears that after we left the railway on Wednesday night, and
took our departure for town, Messrs. Braithwaite and Ericsson intimated
to the judges, that as the joints of "The Novelty" which
had given way, could not be restored to a working state before the
lapse of at least eight days, and the prolongation of the competition
was likely to be attended with great inconvenience to many parties,
they would withdraw their engine from any further trial, and "leave
it to be judged of by the performances it had already exhibited."
(3)
The Liverpool Mercury
(October, 1829)
We may consider the trial of the Locomotive Engines as now virtually
at an end. It is much to be regretted, that "The Novelty"
was not built in time to have the same opportunity of exercising that
Mr. Stephenson's engine had, or that there is not in London, or its
vicinity, any railway where experiments with it could have been tried.
It will evidently require several weeks to perfect the working of
the machine and the proper fitting of the joints, and under this impression,
Messrs. Braithwaite and Ericsson have acted wisely in withdrawing,
us they have done, from the contest.
In withdrawing so honorably from the competition, Messrs. Braithwaite
and Ericsson have done themselves the highest credit, and they may
rest assured that the scientific world will do justice to their efforts,
and look with anxiety to a speedy completion of their elegant and
compact engine prepared to bear the fiercest "ordeal" which
the judges may please to direct.
The Novelty" still remains
at Liverpool, and Messrs. Braithwaite and Ericsson have publicly announced
that as soon as it is repaired, and the cement of the joints sufficiently
hardened, they will (with the leave of the Directors) complete the
exhibition of its powers; and show that but for the accidents which
it unfortunately met with, it was more than equal to the accomplishment
of the task this was last assigned to it.
The
course is thus left clear for Mr Stephenson; and we congratulate him,
with much sincerity, on the probability of his being about to receive
the reward of £500. This is due to him for the perfection to
which he has brought the old-fashioned locomotive engine, but the
grand prize of public opinion is the one which has been gained by
Messrs. Braithwaite and Ericsson, for their decided improvement in
the arrangement, the safety, simplicity, and the smoothness and steadiness
of a locomotive engine; and however imperfect the present works of
the machine may be it is beyond a doubt - and we believe we speak
the opinion of nine-tenths of the engineers and scientific men now
in Liverpool — that it is the principle and arrangement of this
London engine which will be followed in the construction of all future
locomotives.
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