4# Inventions That Changed The World - ( Steam 😤 Engine )

I would lie if said that the word "steam" doesn't make me think of a cool choo-choo train. Let us start with some locomotives and go from it.

Through the 18th century some awesome progress was made, railways were built everywhere. Many people wanted for this to work. A lot of hard work was put in this great project but all for a good reason. How many times would you be late for work, a meeting or maybe just to hang-out with your friends if it wasn't for our little old choo-choo?

In 1784, William Murdoch, a Scottish @inventor16, built a prototype steam road locomotive. An early working model of a steam rail locomotive was designed and constructed by steamboat pioneer John Fitch in the United States probably during the 1780s or 1790s. During the 18th century, the Enlightenment culminated in the French and American revolutions. Philosophy and science increased in prominence. Philosophers dreamed of a brighter age and it came in many forms. Good and bad ones. You be the judge of it, but I have a feeling we are doing just fine. Technology wise of course.

The first full-scale working railway steam locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick in the United Kingdom and, on 21 February 1804, the world's first railway journey took place as Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway from the Pen-y-Darren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil to Abercynon in south Wales. Today we can go practically anywhere. We have subways and soon also under water railways. I wish, would love to see a cool @fish:)

Steam had already enjoyed a long and successful career in locomotive powerplants, so it was only natural that the technology evolved into a miniaturized version which was unshackled from the rails. Here we have "steam wagons" & "steam carriages" that were used on land and independent of rails. The first half of the 19th century saw great progress in steam vehicle design, and by the 1850s it was viable to produce them on a commercial basis.

This is the first "STEAM WAGGON" made by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot - 1769

The first "STEAM CARRIAGE" made by Richard Trevithick - 1803

Well we all know later on they were replaced with more powerful engines and a new revolution started...

They still had some great times back then for sure. Here we end our episode 4. Hopefully, you learned something new. I know I did. Feel free to do more research on your own by following these links below!

https://www.britannica.com/technology/steam-engine

https://www.egr.msu.edu/~lira/supp/steam/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th_century

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