Invention Gallery

B&O Railroads Tom Thumb steam locomotive, 1830

Passenger car pulled by Peter Cooper's experimental locomotive "Tom Thumb" on the B&O Railroad, 1830.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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First Atlantic crossing by steamship, 1819

American paddlewheeler "Savannah," the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, 1819.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Joseph Henrys electromagnetic telegraph, 1832

Joseph Henry's signal telegraph apparatus, the first electromagnetic telegraph, 1832.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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