The book Peter Cooper was written by author Rossiter W 1840 1918 Raymond Here you can read free online of Peter Cooper book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Peter Cooper a good or bad book?
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" THE TOM THUMB 49 Mr. Latrobe says of the Tom Thumb : " The machine was not larger than the hand cars used by workmen to transfer them- selves from place to place ; and as the speaker now recalls its appearance, the only wonder is that so apparently insignificant a contriv- ance should ever have been regarded as competent to the smallest results. But Mr. Cooper was wiser than many of the wisest around him. His engine could not have weighed a ton ; but he saw in it a principle which the forty-t...on engines of to-day have but served to develop and demonstrate. The boiler of Mr. Cooper's engine was not as large as the kitchen boiler attached to many a range in modern mansions. It was of about the same diameter, but not much more than half as high. It stood upright in the car, and was filled above the furnace, which occupied the lower section, with ver- tical tubes. The cylinder was but three and one half inches in diameter ; and speed was got up by gearing. No natural draft could have been sufficient to get up steam in so small a boiler ; and Mr.
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