A Steam-Powered Car Sets a Land Speed Record

Preparations

The effort required ten years of work and several weeks of false starts. When the car arrived in the desert, mechanics

Preparations
The effort required ten years of work and several weeks of false starts. When the car arrived in the desert, mechanics struggled to get its multiple boilers to function smoothly.

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