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| Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations have both left examples of stone rutways. By the 16th century, German minors employed wooden railways. I'm sure that it would be impracticable to measure how many private and public groups through the ages used some length of railway to enhance transportation. Just a few years after the first steam engine was installed in the United States of America to pump water from a mine, the first dedicated railway was organized. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1758 |
An act of Parliament established the Middleton Railway in Leeds, England. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1764 | British troops built a cable operated inclined raiway at a military encampement at Lewiston, New York. |
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| 1769 | Frenchman Captain Nicholas Joseph Cugnot demonstrated his three-wheeled steam carriage, which he built at the Paris arsenal for heavy cannon moving. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1802 | Richard Trevithick built and tested his steam railway locomotive design at Coalbrookdale, England's ironworks iron-railway. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1804 | February 21: Richard Trevithick ran his improved self-drafting, return-flue, high-pressure (at least 40 psi), double-acting steam locomotive with smooth wheels on a private cast-iron tramway in Pen-y-darran, Wales. The flanged tracks ran from Samuel Homfray's iron foundry to the Glamorganshire Canal (9-1/2 miles). The train included the engine and five wagons carrying at least 10 tons of iron and 70 men. It was able to approach a speed of five miles per hour and completed the journey. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1812 | August 12: John Blenkinsop's cog locomotive began earning revenue on the 3-1/4 mile Middleton Railway with regular freight service which it continued until 1835. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1825 | September 27 @ 12:45: England's Stockton & Darlington Railway opened regular passenger and freight service with George Stephenson driving his "Locomotion" averaging eight miles per hour while pulling 29 cars. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1825 | October 23: Colonel John Stevens III demonstrated his steam powered, 220-foot, circular cog railway at his Hoboken, New Jersey residence at the excessive speed of 6 miles per hour. | |
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| 1826 | April 17: George Featherstonhaugh chartered New York State's Mohawk & Hudson Rail Road Company. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1830 | Robert Stevens designed the T-rail for the Camden & Amboy Railroad of New Jersey. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1830 | December 25: The South Carolina Canal & R.R. Co. opened its first six miles of railway for regular service with Nickolas W. Darrell driving the "Best Friend of Charleston," built at the West Point Foundry. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1831 | The South Carolina Canal & R.R. Co. began mail service. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1832 | John Bloomfield Jervis demonstrated one mile per minute with his 4-2-0 (Whyte classification) locomotive "Experiment" on the Mohawk & Hudson Rail Road. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1835 | Blacksmith Thomas Davenport of Vermont demonstrated a small railway operated by an electric motor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1839 | (The Daguerreotype camera was commercially manufactured.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1846 | November 29: A Michigan Central Railroad telegraph line connected Detroit with Ypsilanti, Michigan. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1851 | April 29: An electril railway car, built by Professor Page of the Smithsonian Institute, ran from Washington to Bladensburg and back. It attained 19 miles per hour. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1855 | (Sir Henry Bessemer invented a practical industrial process in England for purifying pig-iron into steel.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1863 | January 10: Engineer Sir John Fowler opened six kilometers of municipal subway service in London. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1869 | May 10: The U.S.A.'s transcontinental railway was completed, joining at promontory, Utah. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1877 | July 26: The Michigan Central Railroad used a telephone system in Detroit. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1879 | (Thomas Alva Edison produced a practical electric lamp.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1883 | (November 18: William F. Allen�s four standard time zones became effective in the United States at noon.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1886 | H.L.Talbot offered electric streetcar railway service in Port Huron, Michigan. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1893 | May 10: The New York Central & Hudson River Railroad�s 4-4-0 locomotive number �999� ran 112.5 MPH. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1897 | September 1: Boston, Massachusetts opened municipal service on the Tremont Street Subway. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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