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Bready Collection of Postcards & Stereo Views msa_sc6011_2_2-0075 Enlarge and print image (713K) |
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Bready Collection of Postcards & Stereo Views msa_sc6011_2_2-0075 Enlarge and print image (713K) |
| « ..- ------_ "J^H TOHK'i83i #i P NCOURAGED by the suc- cess of the tiny Tom Thumb the Baltimore and Ohio offered a prize of $3500 for the best loco- motive that should be built for it. Phineas Davis, a watchmaker at York, Pennsylvania, devised an engine which was hauled by oxen for sixty miles to Baltimore over a hilly road and which went at once into successful operation. |