[DOC] [TLE] Phineas Davis - ExplorePAHistory.com [PAR] In the early days of American railroading, horses pulled the trains. On a level ... 
Convinced that the steam engine offered a better way to pull rail cars, B&O 
investor Peter Cooper built a small locomotive nicknamed Tom Thumb in 1829. ... 
Burning anthracite coal, it produced only about one and a half horsepower. 
During its... [DOC] [TLE] French Locomotive (1830): The first French railway to use steam ... [PAR] Old Photos of Tom Thumb - The First American-Built Steam Locomotive ... engine
. These locomotives are fueled by burning some combustible material, usually 
coal, wood or oil, ... In 1830, a man named Peter Cooper made the first steam 
locomotive. .... tiny cloud - The George Stephenson&#39;s 1829 Rocket, the first 
train . [DOC] [TLE] Dreams of Steam - The Museum of American Heritage [PAR] Nov 15, 1996 ... Steam engines are external combustion engines; fuel is burned outside ... 
railroad car was set on fire by a locomotive spark , burning $60,000 in paper 
money. ... The Industrial Revolution started in England, and at its root was coal, 
..... It was built by Peter Cooper in 1829 to demonstrate to doubting railroad... [DOC] [TLE] Sept. 18, 1830: Horse Beats Iron Horse, for the Time Being | WIRED [PAR] Sep 18, 2008 ... America's first native locomotive loses a smackdown race to a draft horse ... See 
what's inspiring us. ... led a group to establish the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 
1828.1 ... Engineer Peter Cooper thought he could build a locomotive that ... car 
pulled ahead first, as the tiny engine struggled to build up steam. [DOC] [TLE] Fact Or Fable, Locomotive Story Rolls On - tribunedigital-baltimoresun [PAR] Nov 8, 2009 ... In 1830, The Tale Goes, A First-of-its Kind Train Lost To A ... about New York 
tinkerer Peter Cooper and the circumstances surrounding his building ... The 
genesis for my story was a B&O Museum exhibition, "Cooper's Locomotive," that 
... the popular story of the tiny Tom Thumb pulling a carload of railroad... [DOC] [TLE] Railroads Across North America by M Dielemans - issuu [PAR] May 28, 2013 ... Railroads Across North America An Illustrated History | Issuu is a digital 
publishing ... But on February 21, 1804, the world's first steam locomotive 
trundled along .... Peter Cooper designed and constructed a tiny 1-ton 
experimental steam .... In 1830, there were 23 miles of railroad track in the United 
States. [DOC] [TLE] .007 - notes - The Kipling Society [PAR] The former was for internal use by the company which built the locomotive, and ... 
interest (to us railway enthusiasts, anyway), that although, back in the 1830s and 
.... Peter Cooper (1791-1883) was an inventor and mechanic who built the first .... 
a locomotive was far greater than in a simple engine, in which the steam only... [DOC] [TLE] Special 50th Anniversary Historic Timeline - Wilmington & Western ... [PAR] Sep 16, 1999 ... #92 - Grand Trunk Railway 2-6-0 (currently stored, first engine to pull .... In 1886, 
with the first B&O trains crossing Delaware, the B&ORR ... who built the railroad, 
initially wondered if steam locomotives could ...... 1830) establishes the Baltimore 
& ...... Marshall, Jr. and charter member Pete Small in Yorklyn. [DOC] [TLE] BALL Watch Catalogue Collection 2014 / 2015 [v.14.1.0 ... - Minutacz [PAR] American railroads, BALL Watch remains one of the most respected and well 
established watch ... The first American railroads . ..... August 28th, Inventor Peter 
Cooper ... majority of steam locomotives built ... telegraph line along the B&O 
Railroad ... 1855 United States' first coal- ... South Carolina Railroad in the early 
1830s. [DOC] [TLE] The Foundry Fathers  West Milford, the Story of a Suburb, Ch. 8 ... [PAR] Oct 19, 2012 ... Though he cast his lot with the Patriot cause during the American Revolution, 
officers .... By 1765, Peter Hasenclever made Ringwood the center of his ... 5 coal 
houses; 3 blacksmith shops; 17 frame houses with bricks

Question: In 1830 Peter Cooper built this "tiny" locomotive, the first U.S. coal-burning steam engine, for the B&O; Railroad
Answer: "Tom Thumb"