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  2. Steam locomotive - Wikipedia

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    A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the ... In 1784, William Murdoch, a Scottish inventor, ...

  3. Peter Cooper - Wikipedia

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    Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791 – April 4, 1883) was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and politician.He designed and built the first American steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb, founded the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, served as its first president, and stood for election as the Greenback Party's candidate in the 1876 presidential election.

  4. Locomotion No. 1 - Wikipedia

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    Locomotion No. 1 (originally named Active) is an early steam locomotive that was built in 1825 by the pioneering railway engineers George and Robert Stephenson at their manufacturing firm, Robert Stephenson and Company. It became the first steam locomotive to haul a passenger-carrying train on a public railway, the Stockton and Darlington ...

  5. Richard Trevithick - Wikipedia

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    Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer.The son of a mining captain, and born in the mining heartland of Cornwall, Trevithick was immersed in mining and engineering from an early age.

  6. Tom Thumb (locomotive) - Wikipedia

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    Tom Thumb was the first American-built steam locomotive to operate on a common-carrier railroad.It was designed and constructed by Peter Cooper in 1829 to convince owners of the newly formed Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) (now CSX) to use steam engines; it was not intended to enter revenue service.

  7. Locomotive - Wikipedia

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    A steam locomotive is a locomotive whose primary power source is a steam engine. ... [31] Kandó invented and developed the rotary phase converter, ...

  8. List of railway pioneers - Wikipedia

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    first six-coupled steam locomotive and inventor of the Gölsdorf axle system [1] [2] [3] Louis Adolf Gölsdorf: Gepäcklokomotive: John Haswell: first steam brake, sheet steel firebox [1] Hugo Lentz: inventor of award-winning improvements to steam engines, e.g. steam valve gear with oscillating and rotating cams to actuate poppet valves [1] [3 ...

  9. History of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830 - Wikipedia

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    The first commercially successful steam locomotive was the twin cylinder Salamanca, built in 1812 by John Blenkinsop and Matthew Murray for the 4 ft 1 in (1,245 mm) gauge Middleton Railway. [15] Blenkinsop believed that a locomotive light enough to move under its own power would be too light to generate sufficient adhesion, so he designed a ...