Industrial Revolution: The Steam Locomotive

The Steam Locomotive was one of the most significant inventions that helped evolve the Industrial Revolution. This invention also advanced the trading system in the early stages of the United States .The Locomotive brought “philosophical economic, social and political changes the invention of the locomotive would bring.”(Perfecting the Steam Locomotive) Steam Locomotive also gave the ability to move societies and merchandise to any region of the country resulted in the growth of country settlements. If it wasn’t for the invention of railroads the geography and infrastructure would not be the same as modern day.

Steam Locomotive was a vehicle designed to run on railroads that produces that produces power through a steam engine. Locomotives are powered by burning materials, usually coal, oil (gas) or wood, to yield steam in a container, which powers the steam engine. The locomotive was also designed to carry extra fuel or any other supplies on the locomotive itself . It’s also important to note that a “Train” is when there is carts connected to the back of it. The Steam Locomotive is composed when the Tender Pulls rail cars on the train.

The inventor of the Steam Locomotive, George Stephenson born on June 9, 1781, in a poor coal mining town in Wylam. George began to construct his idea of the locomotive after catching wind that William Hedley and Timothy Hackworth were designing one for the coal mines. After 10 months of hard labor George finally finished the locomotive and tested it the uphill tracks of Cillingwood Railroad on July 25, 1814. George also used sixteen different engines before created the most successful engine to create the Steam Locomotive . The inventor of first American made steam locomotive was in 1830(first...

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...to go/pass through there region so that they could benefit off of it. At first this was unreasonable and then governments often had to act and resolve where the track lines should be placed before the less cost-effective track lines could be made. The Track sizes and safety laws had to be enforced so that other railroads could without difficulty could link up and run their own trains on their companies' tracks without disobeying safety laws and to prevent train collisions. As expected each railroad wanted to dodge the expenses of adapting its own track size to another company's typical track, therefore the government needed to step in and impose a standard track sizes and safety laws. Now that railroads combined their nation’s tracks economically, the governments is directing their development combined their population politically and increased their own power.