WORLD HISTORY

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: -George Stephenson was a self-taught English civil and mechanical engineer sometimes called the “Father of Railways". He developed the ‘Rocket’, an early locomotive, with his son Robert and pioneered rail transport and the development of the first passenger railways.

Detailed explanation-3: -Stephenson built his “travelling engine” in 1814, which was used to haul coal at the Killingworth mine. In 1829, the Stephensons built the famous locomotive Rocket, which used a multi-tube boiler, a practice that continued in successive generations of steam engines.

Detailed explanation-4: -Known as the ‘Father of the Railways’, George Stephenson was a pioneering engineer and inventor who rose from a humble background to play the key role in the development and building of Britain’s railways. His most famous invention was the locomotive engine called the ‘Rocket’.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first full-scale working railway steam locomotive was built in the United Kingdom in 1804 by Richard Trevithick, a British engineer born in Cornwall. This used high-pressure steam to drive the engine by one power stroke. The transmission system employed a large flywheel to even out the action of the piston rod.