Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1891 — A Tiny Locomotive. [ARTICLE]
A Tiny Locomotive.
Probably the smallest ' locomotive ever constructed has just been made by William Jacobs, a mechinist of Mecklenberg township, Pennsylvania It weighs but one and one-quarter pounds and is a portion of. an eightday clock. Around the dial is a miniature railway track, and on this the tiny locomotive moves every five minutes.
