Who i father of railways

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Who i father of railways

Answer 1

who i father...what the h**l is this.

Answer 2

Well, the first steam engine was built in 1804 by Richard Trevithick, an English engineer born in Cornwall

The first commercially successful steam locomotive was Matthew Murray's rack locomotive The Salamanca built for the narrow gauge Middleton Railway in 1812.

William James, a rich and influential surveyor and land agent, was inspired by the development of the steam locomotive to suggest a national network of railways. He was responsible for proposing a number of projects that later came to fruition, and he is credited with carrying out a survey of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Unfortunately, he became bankrupt and his schemes were taken over by George Stephenson and others. However, he is credited by many historians with the title of "Father of the Railway".

BUT, railroads wouldn't be as safe and fast as they are today without Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1855 and made mass-produced steel possible, and Andrew Carnegie who was the big steel-producer for the railways.

Answer 3

George Stephenson.