Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works was a 19th-century manufacturer of
railroad steam locomotives based in Paterson, New Jersey in the United
States. They built more than 6,000 steam locomotives for railroads
around the world. Most railroads in 19th-century United States rostered
at least one Rogers-built locomotive. The company's most famous product
was a locomotive named The General, built in December 1855, which was
one of the principals of the Great Locomotive Chase of the American
Civil War. Rogers was the second-most popular American locomotive
manufacturer of the 19th century behind the Baldwin Locomotive Works
amongst almost a hundred manufacturers. The company was founded by
Thomas Rogers in an 1832 partnership with Morris Ketchum and Jasper
Grosvenor as Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor. Rogers remained president
until his death in 1856 when his son, Jacob S. Rogers, took the
position and reorganized the company as Rogers Locomotive and Machine
Works. The younger Rogers led the company until he retired in 1893.
Robert S. Hughes then became president and reorganized the company as
Rogers Locomotive Company, which he led until his death in 1900.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1579:
Our Lady of Kazan , a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was
discovered underground in Kazan, present-day Tatarstan, Russia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Kazan>
1709:
Great Northern War: Peter I of Russia defeated Charles XII of Sweden in
Poltava, Ukraine, effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in
Europe.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Poltava>
1758:
French and Indian War: French forces defeated the British at Fort
Carillon on the shore of Lake Champlain in the British Colony of New
York.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon>
1947:
After various news agencies reported the capture of a "flying disc" by
U.S. Air Force personnel from the Roswell Army Air Field in Roswell,
New Mexico, the U.S. Military issued a press release maintaining that
what was actually recovered was debris from an experimental
high-altitude surveillance weather balloon.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_Incident>
2004:
After a 19-month trial, U.S. Marine Corps Major Michael Brown was
convicted by a court in Naha, Okinawa, for an attempted indecent
assault on a Filipina bartender.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brown_Okinawa_assault_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
figment (n):
A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/figment>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities
vanish.
--Jean de La Fontaine
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