and now on to "The Great Eastern"!
Best,
Ray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Marr" <mmarr@notwires.com>
To: "Frank Fisher" <yellowtr3@yahoo.com>; "Wayne Lee"
<wayne@motorcarriage.com>
Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [TR] Daily Telegraph - TR4 Buyers guide
>> of England had and still have the greatest craftsman. the north was where
>> the
>> worlds industrial revolution started. the first steam engine/train ran
>> from
>> Liverpool to Manchester. Stevenson's Rocket.
>
>
> Sorry, Frank, I have to correct your steam locomotive history, since I am
> a steam geek as well as a TR geek. It si generally recognized that
> Richard Trevithick built the first successful steam locomotive, which ran
> on a tramway at the ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil in 1804. George
> Stephenson's first locomotive was the "Blucher", which he built in 1814.
> His first railway was actually the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which
> opened in 1825. The L&M followed in 1830. The Rocket was built around
> the same time and was important because it was the first "modern"
> locomotive, incoporating a fire-tube boiler, induced draft furnace using a
> blast pipe to provide the draft, and driving cylinders that were at about
> a 40 degree angle to horizontal, rather than vertical like all its
> predecessors. The Rocket was built for the Rainhill Trials, which was a
> competiton to select the most efficient loco for the new L&M railway. The
> Rocket won and pretty much all successful locos built thereafter
> incorporated its features.
>
> George Stephenson became the first President of the Institution of
> Mechanical Engineers (of which I am a proud Member), founded in 1847. His
> son, Robert, was also president of the same institution. Geo. Stephenson
> also defined the standard track gauge as 4ft 8 1/2 inches, which is still
> the standard in most parts of the world today.
>
> Don't get me started on Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who was the greatest
> engineer of the Victorian age, in my opinion...
>
> Mike
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