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 139
velled so agreeably. Mr. Thomas caused amodel sailing-car to be constructed, which he presentedto the baron, with the respects of the company, to be for-warded to the emperor. This courtesy on the part ofMr. Thomas was handsomely acknowledged by the baron. HORSE AND SAILING CARS. 125 Like the… … SAILING-OAK. It was after the demonstration by Peter Cooper thatthe Baltimore and Susquehanna Kailroad Company,now the Northern Central, imported the Herald fromEngland. It ran off the track continually, and wasuseless. Its unfitness, with its large wheels, for use onour curved roads was at once…
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