Steam Shovel Inventor

1915 Stanley Steamer passenger wagon which took tourists to Olympics ...

SEQUIM — Pat Farrell loves to let off steam and does so in a big way.

His 1915 Stanley Steamer passenger mountain wagon will return Friday to Port Angeles for the first time in nearly 100 years as the featured antique vehicle in this year's Heritage Days celebration.

The Stanley will be among several other well-loved and maintained Horseless Carriage Club of America cars exhibited on the lot at First and Laurel streets downtown from about 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, the first day of the three-day Heritage Days festival.

Horseless Carriage Club members plan to take out their cars — which reach top speeds of between 20 and 30 mph — to tour Sequim and the surrounding area today before heading to Port Angeles on Friday for the grand show of pre-1916 one- and two-cylinder horseless carriages.

The 12-seat predecessor of modern-day buses and the largest of the Stanley Steamer line is powered by any kind of liquid fuel that heats the boiler, producing steam that powers its engine and drive train, unlike gasoline-powered internal combustion engines.

“It was used to haul guests to resorts like Sol Duc Hot Springs,” said Farrell of Sedro-Woolley.

“In the winter, a guy had to ride on the hood with a snow shovel to keep snow away from the burner,” he said Wednesday, speaking in the parking lot of the Quality Inn in West Sequim, where Horseless Carriage Club members gathered first to check out the shiny, gleaming, ancient competition.

Farrell's red steamer has the largest engine, at 30 horsepower, that Stanley ever produced.

Stanley set a land speed record in 1906 with such an engine — 127.6 mph.

It moves silently, save for the whistling blast of steam, similar to a locomotive engine on rails, that can be released.

A low, eerie whistling sound can occasionally be heard coming from the burner.

Farrell, who bought the Stanley in 1998, said the vehicle would catch a ferry across Lake Crescent, then take the rutted dirt roads 10 miles southwest to the hot springs.

The steamer gets 1 mile per gallon on its water from a 50-gallon boiler and 10 miles per gallon on its fuel.

That gives it a 50-mile range between water stops.

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On the other hand, apparently copyright was insufficient to provide him with enough incentive to share those novels, which is the bigger problem. As Thomas Jefferson noted, the goal of the patent system from the PUBLIC perspective was NEVER to incentivize people to create; the goal was to get people to share their creations. As inventors themselves have said over and over again, patents are often the difference between someone trying to bring their invention to market versus letting it sit in the pages of a notebook or in their garage, to be reinvented, over and over again, because the invention is never shared.

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