WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Question
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Who invented the steam locomotive?
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Thomas Edison
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Samuel Morse
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Robert Futon
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George Stevenson
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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: -1814: George builds his first steam locomotive, the Blucher, at Killingworth Colliery, near Newcastle upon Tyne.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
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