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Casey Jones – Illinois Central engineer whose death in a 1900 train wreck was made famous in song and legend; Jeme Tien Yow – distinguished Chinese railroad engineer often called the Father of China's railroad; Albert Lacombe – made a railroad through Blackfoot territory; Jordan Anastasoff
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.
Gkoumas, Konstantinos, and Anastasios Tsakalidis. "A framework for the taxonomy and assessment of new and emerging transport technologies and trends." Transport 34.4 (2019): 455–466. online; Gourvish, Terry. "What kind of railway history did we get? Forty years of research." Journal of Transport History 14.2 (1993): 111–125. Horner, Craig.
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.
The history of transport is largely one of technological innovation.Advances in technology have allowed people to travel farther, explore more territory, and expand their influence over increasingly larger areas.
Pioneered by Stephenson, rail transport was one of the most important technological inventions of the 19th century and a key component of the Industrial Revolution. Built by George and his son Robert 's company Robert Stephenson and Company , the Locomotion No. 1 was the first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public rail line, the ...
Received patent (with Gustave de Struve) for a steam-engine powered “flying machine” capable of carrying 120 people (i.e., commercial passenger aircraft) (1864), [183] and for a navigable balloon (1883). [184] E. Lilian Todd: 1865 26 Sep 1937 United States: Designer Construction Propeller: First female aircraft designer (c. 1906). [185 ...
The people listed here weren't necessarily railroad executives, but each of them played an important role in the history of rail transport worldwide. Subcategories This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total.