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The Daily Herald
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
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Correspondent from Wheeling Gazette reports from Washington city on April 4th that countryman Perkins invented a non-exploding steam boiler, offers it to U.S. government for 10-year testing with compensation if successful, praised as major advancement for western steam enterprises.
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Our countryman, Perkins, has invented a steam boiler which cannot explode. He writes from London to our government, that he is anxious that his country should realize the benefit of his invention, and demands a corresponding compensation. He offers to suffer his experiment to be tested, for the space of ten years; and should it fail, he withdraws his demand for pecuniary reward.
As Perkins is unquestionably one of the greatest mechanics of the age, this intelligence, I have no doubt, will be highly gratifying to the western people, whose enterprise is so intimately connected with steam power, and who have suffered so much from the disasters incident to the bursting of boilers.
If this information is correct, the name of Perkins will stand second to Fulton's alone.
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Washington City
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April 4th
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offers 10-year test; withdraws demand if fails; potential benefit to western people from reduced boiler explosion disasters.
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Perkins invented steam boiler that cannot explode; writes from London to U.S. government offering invention for country's benefit with compensation; allows 10-year testing; if fails, withdraws pecuniary demand. Perkins is great mechanic; intelligence gratifying to western people connected with steam power who suffered from boiler bursts. Perkins' name to stand second to Fulton's if correct.