Versatile American industrialist, inventor, and politician (1791–1883) who designed the first steam locomotive built in the United States and patented a gelatin dessert later marketed under the brand name Jell-O. AQS on an off-white 6.25 x 4 album page, elaborately signed “Peter Cooper.” Cooper pens a religious thought. In full (spelling and grammar retained): “Mankind will improve there condition as they draw from from the revelation of nature a more rational theoligy.” In fine condition. RR Auction COA.
