Note 101 — Chapter II
Reading edition
“Encyclopædia Britannica” (eighth edition), vol. xx. p. 638.
In the Patent Office Museum there is now to be seen the engine of the first Comet which carried goods and passengers on the Clyde. It was erected there in 1862 by the same engineer, Mr. John Robertson of Glasgow, who fitted it in the Comet, exactly fifty years before that time. To this engine I shall again refer.