Comments by "Scott Giles" (@scottgiles7546) on "Steam Boilers in the 1900's - The Unusual Case of the Car and Ship" video.

"Traction engines are naturally slow" 25:22 No! NO! NO!! Traction Engines are UNNATURALLY slow. Just watch some. They're on YouTube....
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In the US two major Railroads, the SP (Southern Pacific) and the AT&SF (Santa Fe - the one with the War Bonnet paint scheme), began experimenting with oil fired steam locomotives in the mid 1890's and were converting large numbers of locomotives by the late 1890's. Oil firing was a well known and established art by 1899 so upscaling it would have just required wanting to do it, and accepting the occasional "OOPS!". (BOOM!!)
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@John Thomas "They’re a very deluded bunch and they have our pity." Less ranting and more information would better serve, unless you are trying to come off as a deluded fool yourself. Who invented the water tube boiler then, and when? There are also many cases where major innovations were developed independently with two or more legitimate claims.
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@bobsmith2637 Do you mean something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA0E7kRhd6M
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@bobsmith2637 If you know about Tractor Pulls, the tractor pulls a sled and the weight/load on the sled increases till the tractor stops. Here is a 110HP Case pulling one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVxByLO_6cA
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@lobsterbark " But most of the development of automobiles was around electric and steam until after WW I. " And the Model T Ford started production when? (1908) History is never as simple as people think.
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"Today we take a look at the little know crossover between the early automotive industry and the development of naval propulsion." Say WHAT?!?!
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