The history of the first locomotives in America : from the original documents, and the testimony of living witnesses (1874)
Brown, William H. (William Henry), 1808-1883 · New York : D. Appleton and Company · leaf 124
of the crank by directaction. On the crank-shaft, which rested on the frame of the car, wasa spur-wheel which geared with a pinion on the forward road-wheels so as to increase speed; the road-wheels being only twoand one-half feet in diameter. The fuel was anthracite coal, and an artificial… … PETER COOPER LOCOMOTIVE. 113 Mr. Winans says that Mr. Cooper at first proposed to com-municate the reciprocating motion of the piston-rod to the road-wheels by an arrangement which I cannot accurately describe, butthe experiment did not satisfy Mr. Cooper on trial, and the com-mon crank action was…
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