were railroads invented in the US and exported to britain?

Answer 1

Go to this site for details... http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrailroad.htm

This site is short and to the point beginning with the fact that "Roads of rails called Wagonways were being used in Germany as early as 1550."

It depends what you mean by 'railroads', as there were many different phases and inventions. For example on February 22, 1804, a locomotive hauled a load of 10 tons of iron, 70 men and five extra wagons the 9 miles between the ironworks at Pen-y-Darron in the town of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales and it took 2 hours.

In 1821, Englishman, Julius Griffiths was the first person to patent a passenger road locomotive.

There seems to be a bit of a parallel, but initially many of the inventions seemed to occur in Europe. So, when the earlier responder says that you have this backwards, he is correct.

Answer 2

No, it is the other way around. The first train engine was created in Britain in the 1820s, I believe the engine was called little Tom, and then copied and exported to the US in the mid 1830's, really taking off in the 1850s.

Answer 3

No. Railways were invented in England during the 19th century. While there had been previous attempts to make a steam powered steam locomotive, it was Robert Stephenson (Not Robert Louis Stephenson) that invented the first successful Steam Locomotive, "The Rocket" in 1829. It was a meeting with Richard Trevithick (inventor of the steam powered water pump) while working at south American Gold and Silver mines that probably inspired his creation of the steam locomotive.

Answer 4

No.
See the story of John Bull. Shipped from England (in parts) to steam in the USA as the Camden and Amboy #1.

Tomb Thumb beat it by a year as America's first steam locomotive, but by then steam railways already had a history in England. Horse-drawn railways went back further still.

Answer 5

Did you not know that the US always has to invent everything first.

The Untied Stetas invented::

* Fire

* The Wheel

*Democracy

* The Watermill

* Mathematics

* Medicine

*Gunpowder

*Rockets

*Cannon

* Firearms

* Printing

*The Battleship

*Flight (Airships)

*The Automobile

*Tanks

*The Aircraft Carrier

*Television

*Radar

* The Atom Bomb

(Just telling you exactly what you want to hear, ragardless of whether its true or not)

Answer 6

the railways began in britain, and were exported to the u.s. originally the romans made roads that were wide enough to allow 2 carriages from opposite sides to pass,those roads werre later converted to railways and those railways were exported to the u.s

Answer 7

Other way round

Answer 8

yes!
at that time trains were going on motorways in britain.

Answer 9

No.