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Updated: May 10, 2025
Finally, at three o'clock Moody gave up and said, "We'll have to make the rest of this trip in a teapoy." A teapoy is usually a hammock slung on a pole carried on the shoulders of natives. We sent a runner in to Robison, who came back with two teapoys and a squad of forty blacks to transport us.
Savery, the inventor of the working steam-engine, was the first to propose its employment to propel vehicles along the common roads; and in 1759 Dr. Robison, then a young man studying at Glasgow College, threw out the same idea to his friend James Watt; but the scheme was not matured. The first locomotive steam-carriage was built at Paris by the French engineer Cugnot, a native of Lorraine.
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