LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
THE TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION TURNPIKES TO STEAMBOATS TO RAILROADS
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He is regarded as the “Father of the Railroad.”
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His locomotives only carried freight, not passengers.
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He invented the electric telegraph.
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His most famous steam-powered locomotive was the Rocket.
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Detailed explanation-1: -1814: George builds his first steam locomotive, the Blucher, at Killingworth Colliery, near Newcastle upon Tyne. 1815: February: George obtains a patent for an improved steam locomotive, with exhaust steam providing a draught on the fire, and working purely by adhesion.
Detailed explanation-2: -The First Locomotive In 1813, Stephenson found out that William Hedley and Timothy Hackworth were designing a locomotive for the Wylam coal mine. So at the age of twenty, Stephenson began the construction of his first locomotive.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Rocket was the only locomotive to successfully complete the trials, averaging 12 mph and achieving a top speed of 30 mph. Designed by Robert Stephenson, Rocket’s win proved once and for all that locomotives were better at pulling trains along the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, rather than stationary winding engines.