GK
INVENTIONS
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Question
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Who invented the railway engine?
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George Stephenson
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Charles Babbage
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Isaac Newton
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James Watt
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -George Stephenson, (born June 9, 1781, Wylam, Northumberland, England-died August 12, 1848, Chesterfield, Derbyshire), English engineer and principal inventor of the railroad locomotive.
Detailed explanation-2: -By 1830 Stephenson’s new locomotive, the Rocket, which could achieve a speed of 36 miles per hour, was operating on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in Lancashire with other ‘iron horses’ built in the factory he had now opened in Newcastle. The railway age had begun and George Stephenson was its guiding spirit.
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