Tom Thumb ( Amer. English. Tom Thumb , which translates as "Boy with a finger") - a steam locomotive with an axial formula 1-1-0 ; The first locomotive created by Americans - inventor Peter Cooper .
| Tom thumb | |
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 Steam locomotive model completed in 1927 | |
| Production | |
| Country of construction |  USA |
| Chief Designer | Peter Cooper |
| Year of construction | 1830 year |
| Technical details | |
| Axial formula | 1-1-0 |
| Steam train length | 4.03 meters |
| Power | 1 kW |
| Exploitation | |
| A country | USA |
 External Images | |
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 | Horse drawn race |
History
On the first railways, wagons (wheelchairs with wheels for riding on rails) pulled horses. After the invention of the steam engine, the first steam locomotives were built in England . They were exported to the USA , until in 1830 [1] the Americans created their own locomotive. [2]
The first steam engine, called Tom Thumb, was designed and built by Peter Cooper. This locomotive had a vertically arranged boiler and cylinders. The steam engine used anthracite coal as fuel. Its construction was carried out in the machine shop of the George Johnson plant ( born George W. Johnson ). Testing was carried out on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railway line between Baltimore and Ellicott Mills (now Ellicott City ), Maryland , where in a horse-drawn race [3] the locomotive showed good performance despite the malfunction. [4] [5]
To date, the engine has not survived; its model is in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum .
Notes
- ↑ In 1830, the first American steam engine designed by Peter Cooper was archived in the United States. Archived March 21, 2016.
- ↑ Stover, John F. History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. - West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1987. - P. 35–36. - ISBN 0-911198-81-4 .
- ↑ Thumb Boy
- ↑ Peter Cooper's Locomotive (Neopr.) // The Manufacturer and Builder. - 1872. - February ( t. IV , No. 2 ). - S. 32 . (eng.)
- ↑ Dudley, PH The Inception and Progress of Railways (Neopr.) // Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences. - 1886. - 1 February. - S. 142 . (eng.)