Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Transport pioneers — significant inventors and early / innovative transport businesspeople and engineers in the history of transport. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
A railway pioneer is someone who has made a significant contribution to the historical development of the railway (US: railroad). This definition includes locomotive engineers, railway construction engineers, operators of railway companies, major railway investors and politicians, of national and international importance for the development of rail transport.
Grenville M. Dodge – Chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad and helped construct the first American transcontinental railroad.; Fred Harvey – revolutionized passenger train onboard services, making travel by train more comfortable.
The automobile in American history and culture: a reference guide (Greenwood, 2001). Condit, Carl W. The railroad and the city: a technological and urbanistic history of Cincinnati (The Ohio State University Press, 1977) online. Eckermann, Erik. World history of the automobile (SAE International, 2001). Gkoumas, Konstantinos, and Anastasios ...
The history of rail transportation dates back nearly 500 years and includes systems with man or horsepower and rails of wood (or occasionally stone). This was usually for moving coal from the mine down to a river, from where it could continue by boat, with a flanged wheel running on a rail.
The people listed here were all pioneers in the development of various forms of rail transport. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
People in transport, the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Wikimedia Commons has media related to People associated with transport . Subcategories