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14 декабря, 01:38

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In 1808 Richard Trevithick, an Englishman made an attempt to use steam power to draw passenger and freight trains. He demonstrated his working model in London. People looked at his little locomotive with great interest when it ran on a circular track of iron rails. For a shilling the public could travel in a carriage drawn by the steam engine. It developed a speed of 12 mph.

Many people did not believe it was possible to make steam engines suitable for service. However, in 1829 George Stephenson, an English inventor and engineer, built a successful steam locomotive which he called the "Rocket". This locomotive was much smaller and lighter than the steam engines developed later on, and it was much slower. Nevertheless, it could draw a small train of loaded cars on the railway and developed a speed of 13 mph. The "Rocket" is now demonstrated in the British Museum.