Steam drills—driverless cars—and much more to come, I hope and fear. (Law professors?) John Henry may lay down 15 feet to the steam drill's nine.

John Henry, an African American, was supposed to be the biggest — in spirit, in appetite, in the bulging of biceps — and best driver of all. When companies started to employ steam-powered drills to ...

One day, a salesman appeared at the work site promoting a new steam-powered driver he claimed could out-drill any man. There were, of course, disbelievers. His claim was tested by a contest between ...

By the time the steam drill arrives in the second act, John Henry has been pretty much relegated to the secondary figure in his own story.

Whitehead takes the still-debated myth of John Henry, the 19th-century steel-driving black man who dared to take on a steam-powered drill machine, and crafts an interconnected narrative of how the ...

Over the next thirty five years, many hundreds of drills were built, no doubt replacing scores of John Henry’s. Compressed air replaced steam as the power source and by 1905 the Ingersoll-Sergeant ...

In almost 200 folk songs, John Henry drives steel into the Allegheny Mountains for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in a race against a steam drill: “John Henry, O John Henry, Blood am runnin ...

Common to the various versions were lyrics that claimed the contest between John Henry and the steam-powered machine he outdrilled occurred at the Big Bend Tunnel in West Virginia.

The project is called The John Henry Complex and combines the legend of sledgehammer wielding John Henry with the intricate steam powered world of Steampunk.

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Over the next thirty five years, many hundreds of drills were built, no doubt replacing scores of John Henry’s. Compressed air replaced steam as the power source and by 1905 the Ingersoll-Sergeant ...