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Show First Engine Whistle. It was on Saturday, May 4, 1833, that there occurred an accident winch gave us the engine whistle. It was on the level crossing between Bagworth and Thornton that Driver Weather-burn Weather-burn drove the engine Samson into a market cart containing 50 pounds of butter and eggs. So serious an affair was reserved for Stephenson's consideration. consid-eration. A meeting of directors was called, and the manager's suggestion of a whistle which steam could blow was adopted. He went at once to a musical instrument maker in Leicester, who constructed a "steam trumpet," which ten days later was tried in the presence of the board of directors. In appearance it was like a huntsman's horn, 18 inches long and 6 Inches across the top. London Tit-Bits. |