Who invented the first steam train in the 1600-1800?

Question

Between the years of 1600-1800!

Answer 1

Try looking up George Stephenson of Newcastle, England. He was an interesting character, but he was active after 1800. He made the first really successful steam railway in 1814, then greatly improved the whole system in a new railroad opened in 1825. It became a really powerful and successful modern railroad with the arrival of the "Rocket" steam engine in 1829. Before Stephenson, the first real railway was probably the one created near the city of Leeds by John Blenkinsop and Matthew Murray in 1804 using an engine copied from Richard Trevithick's mining engine design.

Fulton did not invent the steam engine. The main inventors of the modern, fully powered steam engine were Newcomen, Watt and Corliss. After good steam engines were built (to power pumps in the mines) it was obvious that they could be used to power other things, such as replacing horses in pulling wagon loads of coal. So, Trevithick, Stephenson, the Leeds guys and others put the whole system together. It was also obvious that there could be some way to use this to power boats, so Fulton in American and several people in Britain tried various systems to get steam engines to power boats. The boats didnt work too well on the ocean until they started using screw propellors. Paddlewheels could be used on quiet water such as rivers but they never really worked well on sea going vessels. It took about 50 - 75 years for all these problems to get worked out, so by about the time of the US Civil war or a little later there were steam engines all over the place.

Thanks for asking this question, I had to look up a couple things to remind myself how it worked. That was a good exercise for my elderly brain! hahahaha.

Answer 2

Who Invented The Steam Train

Answer 3

Why is anything invented, to serve a purpose/fulfill a human need or desire. Steam Train? People wanted to get to places or move things, but it takes time, and costs money. The invention of the steam engine allowed the movement of people or things over longer distances faster, and at a lower cost then before. Someone (or number of people) recognized the value in steam power and put it to use. Before that point traveling by water on a boat with sails was the fastest mean to travel long distances. Horse was the second best where that option was available. Third, on foot.

Answer 4

The earliest railways employed horses to draw carts over the track. As steam engines were developed in the 1700s, various attempts were made to apply these to railroad use.[1] The first attempts were made in Great Britain; the earliest steam locomotive was built in 1804 by Richard Trevithick and Andrew Vivian. It ran with mixed success on the narrow gauge Penydarren tramway in Wales.[1] These early efforts culminated in 1829 with Stephenson's Rocket, which was the first viable mainline locomotive.[2]

Inspired by British success, the United States started developing steam locomotives in 1829 with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Tom Thumb. This was the first locomotive to run in America, although it was intended as a demonstration of the potential of steam traction, rather than as a revenue-earning locomotive. The first successful steam railway in the US was the South Carolina Railroad whose inaugural train ran in December 1830 hauled by the Best Friend of Charleston. Many of the earliest locomotives for American railroads were imported from England, including the Stourbridge Lion and the John Bull, but a national locomotive manufacturing industry was quickly established, with locomotives like the DeWitt Clinton being built in the 1830s.

Answer 5

According to Wikipedia, it was Richard Trevithick in 1804.

Answer 6

It was Geoge Stephenson, a Brit.

Answer 7

robert fulton invented the steam engine, that's all i can tell ya