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... locomotive in America was the same Oliver Evans , a truly great inventor for whom the world was not quite ready . The world has forgotten him . But he was the first engine builder in America , and one of the best of his day . He gave to ...
... locomotive in America was the same Oliver Evans , a truly great inventor for whom the world was not quite ready . The world has forgotten him . But he was the first engine builder in America , and one of the best of his day . He gave to ...
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... locomotive began , tells us some- thing of the vision of this early American inventor : -- The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another almost as fast as birds fly - fifteen to ...
... locomotive began , tells us some- thing of the vision of this early American inventor : -- The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another almost as fast as birds fly - fifteen to ...
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... locomotive , though it was not a success in practice , appears to have been the first to turn a wheel on a regular railway within the United States . It was a seven days ' wonder in New York when it arrived in May , 1829. Then Allen ...
... locomotive , though it was not a success in practice , appears to have been the first to turn a wheel on a regular railway within the United States . It was a seven days ' wonder in New York when it arrived in May , 1829. Then Allen ...
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... locomotives . The directors of the London and Manchester Rail- way had offered a prize of five hundred pounds for the best locomotive , and here they were to try the issue . The contest resulted in the triumph of Stephen- son's Rocket ...
... locomotives . The directors of the London and Manchester Rail- way had offered a prize of five hundred pounds for the best locomotive , and here they were to try the issue . The contest resulted in the triumph of Stephen- son's Rocket ...
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... locomotive was running in England . This news stimulated the directors of the Balti- more and Ohio to try the locomotive . They had not far to go for an experiment , for Peter Cooper , proprietor of the Canton Iron Works in Baltimore ...
... locomotive was running in England . This news stimulated the directors of the Balti- more and Ohio to try the locomotive . They had not far to go for an experiment , for Peter Cooper , proprietor of the Canton Iron Works in Baltimore ...
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