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To 1829 when Cooper, the merchant with a vision, prooeeded to prove himself the man who knew, even if he couldn't explain why, there had not been seen on this continent anything pre-figuring a locomotive. Pending the working out of his application of steam to rail transport, the "Stourbridge Lion", the first locomotive to turn a wheel on American soil, arrived from England by sailing vessel and was taken up the Hudson to the Honnesdale coal tramway for operation there. A seven ton, top heavy, grasshopper type construction on a hemlock way with but half inch thick iron plates between it and the wood, admitted of but one conclusion which was speedily arrived at, A single trial trip settled it, and the "America", a Stephenson locomotive ordered abroad at the same time as the "Lion", arriving in New York a few weeks later, was left there to be sold for what it might bring as a s t a t i o n a r y en Thi t h e very t h i c xperience, transpiring when Oooper was in f hie perplexities had no daunting effect No tubes being available for his bdiler, of shotgun barrels and made them do. So too what ,ever 1upon quisites, if the thing he wanted was not urned to some sort of a shift in the adapther thing. Ameri >n wuo He made good, and the future of pro- railroad with Amerioan metho tablished. The triumphant demonstration
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