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24 Henry was still dreaming about cars. Everywhere he went, his
pockets rattled with metal parts. When he was seventeen he took a job
at a machine shop to learn more about engines and machinery. Then,
two years later, a farmer hired Henry to operate a new steam engine.
Soon Henry began tinkering on a steam engine of his own. He
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strapped the homemade engine to an old mowing machine. His
contraption sputtered along for forty feet, then collapsed.
Henry’s design was a flop!
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27 But everyone was buzzing about Thomas’s talking phonograph.
28 What’s his secret? Henry wondered.
sputtered If something sputtered, it worked in a rough
or uneven way and made popping noises.
flop Something that is a flop is a complete failure.
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