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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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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 ...
Since railroads made transportation much quicker, it was now plausible for people to make money off the seemingly endless resource in the plains of the Midwest: the buffalo. So extreme was the mass hunting of buffalo thanks to the new railroads that wolves could not consume all of the carcasses that were left behind.