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Not So Fast, Tom Thumb: The story of the horse who raced an American steam locomotive

Not So Fast, Tom Thumb: The story of the horse who raced an American steam locomotive

Hardcover

AnimalsScience & NatureTransportation

Publisher Price: $25.99

ISBN10: 1956019944
ISBN13: 9781956019940
Publisher: Dartfrog Blue
Published: May 23 2023
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.25 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

On May 24, 1830, the first train service in the United States commenced in Baltimore, Maryland. Lucius Stockton's horses pulled these train carriages, but Peter Cooper believed he could invent a steam locomotive that could go faster than a horse.


On August 22, Cooper put the first American-made locomotive, Tom Thumb, on the tracks. Stockton and Cooper agreed to a horse versus steam engine race.

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