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A caboose is a crewed North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train. Cabooses provide shelter for crew at the end of a train, ...
John Cabot (Italian: Giovanni Caboto [dʒoˈvanni kaˈbɔːto]; c. 1450 – c. 1499) [2] was an Italian [2] [3] navigator and explorer.His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII, King of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century.
St. Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt Route) Caboose No. 2325 This page was last edited on 21 July 2022, at 03:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
John Kay (17 June 1704 – c. 1779) was an English inventor whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. He is often confused with his namesake , [ 10 ] [ 11 ] who built the first "spinning frame".
1875: The side by side boxlock action, commonly used in double barreled shotguns, invented by William Anson and John Deeley for the Westley Richards company of Birmingham. 1884: The Maxim gun , the first self-powered machine gun invented by Sir Hiram Maxim (1840–1916); American-born, Maxim moved from the United States to England in 1881 ...
Webster Wagner (October 2, 1817 – January 13, 1882) was an American inventor, manufacturer and politician from New York. Life ... White, John H. Jr. (Spring 1986 ...
- Quadracycle invented. 1859 - First model railway for Napoléon, Prince Imperial. 1859 - Gaston Planté invented the lead–acid battery, the first-ever battery that could be recharged by passing a reverse current through it. 1860 - first urban horse railway line (a predecessor of trams), opened in Saint Petersburg. [24]
John Kay was an English inventor best known for the development of the spinning frame in 1767, which marked an important stage in the development of textile ...