The History
of the
First Locomotives In America
From Original Documents And The Testimony Of Living
Witnesses
By
William H. Brown
New York:
D. Appleton And Company,
549 & 551 Broadway.
1871.
CONTENTS.
C h a p t e r
I.-Dedication
II.-Early Railroads
III.-First Head of Steam
IV.-First Steamboats
V.-First Steam-Carriage
VI.-Trevithick's Engine
VII.-George Stephenson
VIII.-Stephenson's Engine
IX.-First Trains
X.-First Deliberations On Railroads
XI.-Competition For The Prize
XII.-Railroads In America
XIII.-First English Locomotive
XIV.-Date Of Its Running
XV.-Landing In America
XVI.-More Facts On The "Stourbridge
Lion"
XVII.-First Meeting Of The Baltimore
And Ohio Railroad Co.
XVIII.-First Brigade Of Cars
XIX.-Ross Winans's Improvements
XX.-Experimental Locomotives
XXI.-Peter Cooper's Locomotive
XXII.-Ross Winans's Comparisons
XXIII.-Horse And Sailing Cars
XXIV.-Peter Cooper
XXV.-Address Of The Graduates
XXVI.-Prize For The Best Locomotive
XXVII.-First American Locomotives
XXVIII.-Further Trails
XXIX.-Explosion Of "Best Friends"
XXX.-Second American Locomotives
XXXI.-First Locomotive Engineer
XXXII.-Horation Allen's Letter
XXXIII.-Claims To First Locomotives
XXXIV.-First Locomotive In New York
XXXV.-Further Evidences
XXXVI.-The Judge's First Ride
XXXVII.-Letters From Officials
XXXVIII.-Additional Letters
XXXIX.-The Author's Art
Antebellum
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