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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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