The first Locomotive engine was the steam engine and was invented by George Stevenson. You can read about him here-
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George Stephenson was the famous railway inventor/creator :)
Granville T. Woods
Nobody, but Elbert R Robinson, an African American inventor, received a patent for an improved electric railway trolley in 1893. This was not the first electric railway trolley.
Richard Trevithick is considered to be one of the pioneers of railway travel. His biggest development to railway travel was the high-pressure steam engine.
Mark Archer has written: 'William Hedley, the inventor of railway locomotion on the present principle'
The WONDER WHEEL was initially called the "Dip-the-Dip" by its inventor. He promised to combine the thrill of a scenic railway, Ferris wheel and Chute-the-Chutes.
The first Locomotive engine was the steam engine and was invented by George Stevenson. You can read about him here-inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrailroad.htmjust copy and paste.
In 1784, William Murdoch, a Scottish inventor, built a prototype steam train.The first full scale working railway steam locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick in the United Kingdom.Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 - 22 April 1833) a British inventor, built the first full-scale working railway Steam Locomotive. On 21 February 1804 the world's first railway journey took place as Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Pennydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydvil in Wales, Great Britain. George Stephenson (9 June 1781 - 12 August 1848) a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives and is known as the "Father of Railways". Trevithick invented the first train, Stephenson the first public railway line. **Early prototypes of Locomotive were built such as Scottish Inventor William Murdoch 1784.
Black American inventor, Albert B. Blackburn, of Springfield, OH, received a patent for a "Railway-Signal" ("operated by the wheel or wheels of the train").Patent number 376,362
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Lewis Latimer was an African American inventor and draftsman. He was famous for his inventions including the electric lamp, water closets for railway cars, lamp fixtures, and process for manufacturing carbons.