Peter Cooper
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Oct 2, 2026
Douglas EdwardsNARRATOR
This is Douglas Edwards at Relay House, midway between Baltimore and Ellicott's Mills, here on the first completed section of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
Douglas EdwardsNARRATOR
All scheduled horse cars have been canceled because today, on this 28th of August, 1830, the first passenger-carrying steam locomotive built in the United States, Mr. Peter Cooper's Tom Thumb, is to have its initial public demonstration.
Douglas EdwardsNARRATOR
From all the surrounding countryside, a crowd of curious, excited people have gathered here at Relay House.
Douglas EdwardsNARRATOR
August 28th, 1830, trial run of the Tom Thumb, Peter Cooper's steam locomotive.
Douglas EdwardsNARRATOR
You are there.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
[crowd chatter]
Douglas EdwardsNARRATOR
And now, 1830, Relay House on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and Douglas Edwards.
Douglas EdwardsNARRATOR
We are expecting the arrival of the Tom Thumb at any moment.
Katie GiboneyNARRATOR
Unseen by the thoughtless, unrecorded in the diaries of wiseacres, rarely mentioned in the speeches of statesmen, there was swiftly rising such a tide in the affairs of America as Jefferson and Hamilton never dreamed of in their little philosophies.
Katie GiboneyNARRATOR
The Inventors Watt and Boulten experimenting with steam in England, Whitney combining wood and steel into a cotton gin, Fulton and Fitch applying the steam engine to navigation, Stevens and Peter Cooper trying out the iron horse on iron highways, Slater building spinning mills in Pawtucket, Howe attaching the needle to the flying wheel, Morse spanning a continent with a telegraph, Cyrus Field linking the markets of the New World with the Old along the bed of the Atlantic, McCormick breaking the sickle under the reaper.
Katie GiboneyNARRATOR
These men and a thousand more were destroying in a mighty revolution of industry the world of the stagecoach and the tallow candle which Washington and Franklin had inherited little changed from the age of Caesar.
Katie GiboneyNARRATOR
Whitney was to make cotton king.
Glenn HebertHOST
there you go All right, we'll get to really bad ads right after a little bit of history.
Glenn HebertHOST
In 1830, industrialist Peter Cooper pitted his Tom Thumb, the first American-built steam locomotive, against a horse-drawn rail car along a nine-mile stretch of track in Maryland.
Glenn HebertHOST
They had a race.
Glenn HebertHOST
And so what he was trying to prove is that mechanical steam power could handle winding, steep American railway routes better than horses.