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Farmers Wary of Early Steam Engines

“I’ve no muscle to weary, no heart to decay No bones to be ‘laid on the shelf.’ And soon I intend you may ‘go and play’ While I manage the world myself. But harness me down with your iron bands Be sure of your curb and rein, For I scorn the strength of your puny hands, As a tempest scorns a chain.”

The “Song of Steam was written in 1849 by George W. Cutter of Covington, Kentucky, to celebrate the exciting new source of seemingly unlimited power then sweeping the industrial world.

By that time,

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