Minstar Transport history

The first steam railway locomotive was introduced by Richard Trevithick in 1804.

The Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, the first line in Scotland to carry passengers, was authorized by Act of Parliament in 1808 and was also built by Jessop.

In 1811, Fulton built the New Orleans in Pittsburgh and began steamboat service on the Mississippi.

The first commercially successful steam locomotive was the twin cylinder Salamanca, designed by in 1812 by Matthew Murray using John Blenkinsop’s patented design for rack propulsion for the Middleton Railway.

In 1820, John Birkenshaw introduced a method of rolling rails in greater lengths using wrought iron which was used from then onward.

It was the world’s first public railway to use steam locomotives. Its first line connected collieries near Shildon with Stockton-on-Tees and Darlington and was officially opened on September 27, 1825. rack and pinion railway: A steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the running rails.

The very first American internal combustion engine, built in 1826 by Samuel Morey, had used grain alcohol because it was inexpensive and readily available.

The railroad, which had been established in 1827 to compete with the Erie Canal, already advertised itself as a faster way to move people and freight from the interior to the coast.

Rainhill Trials: An important competition in the early days of steam locomotive railways, run in October 1829 for the nearly completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

A number of lines were approved in the area, such as the Leeds and Selby Railway in 1830, which linked the former to the port of Hull via the River Ouse.

While coal wagons were hauled by steam locomotives from the start, passengers were carried in coaches drawn by horses until carriages hauled by steam locomotives were introduced in 1833.

The Grand Junction was designed to link the existing L&MR and the new L&BR. It opened in July 1837, with the L&BR following a few months later.

The Railway Inspectorate was established in 1840 to inquire into the causes of accidents and recommend ways of avoiding them.

Railway Clearing House: An organization set up in 1842 to manage the allocation of revenue collected by pre-grouping railway companies of fares and charges paid for passengers and goods travelling over the lines of other companies.

As early as 1844 a bill had been put before Parliament suggesting the state purchase the railways, but it was not adopted.

The Railway Mania, as it was called, reached its zenith in 1846, when no fewer than 272 Acts of Parliament setting up new railway companies were passed.

The Illinois Central Company had been chartered in 1851 to build a rail line from the lead mines at Galena to Cairo, where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers joined.

Beginning with the Crimean War (1854–56), telegraphic communication became an indispensable tool of command, intelligence, and operational coordination, particularly in

Most history books faithfully repeat the inaccurate story that Edwin Drake’s famous 1858 oil strike in Titusville Pennsylvania came just as the world was running out of expensive whale oil.

Automobiles based on internal combustion engine were first patented by Jean Lenoir of France in 1860.

The Northern Pacific Railway, a private corporation chartered by Congress in 1864, built 6,800 miles of track to connect Lake Superior with Puget Sound.

When the Northern Pacific’s proposed route cut through the center of the Great Sioux Reservation, established by the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, the corporation pressured the government to break the treaty.

Workers finished the first coast-to-coast railroad in 1869.

George Custer announced that gold had been discovered in the Black Hills after an 1874 mission protecting Northern Pacific surveyors, and Washington let the treaty be disregarded by both the railroad and the prospectors.

In 1876, the United States celebrated its 100th birthday.

Earlier, an unmanned helicopter powered by a steam engine was developed in 1877 by Enrico Forlanini.

In 1880 Chicago’s population was over 500,000, and ten years later Chicago had over a million residents.

The first gasoline powered automobile was developed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz in 1885.

In 1891, William Morrison introduced electric powered automobiles in the US, which were an improvement over the steam engines.

The first internal combustion farm tractor was built by John Froehlich at his small Waterloo Gasoline Traction Engine Company in 1892.

And because Hill only built lines where traffic justified them rather than adding track just to collect free land, the Great Northern was one of the few transcontinental railroad companies to avoid bankruptcy in the Panic of 1893.

The last major canal to be built in Britain was the Manchester Ship Canal, which upon opening in 1894 was the largest ship canal in the world and opened Manchester as a port.

The first internal combustion truck was built by Gottlieb Daimler in 1896, using an engine that had been developed by Karl Benz a year earlier.

The American brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright were inspired by Lilienthal and by 1902 had developed a fully practical biplane (double-winged) glider that could be controlled in every direction.

17, 1903, made the world’s first successful man-carrying, engine-powered, heavier-than-air flight at a site near Kitty Hawk, on the coast of North Carolina.

In 1906, the first car was developed with an internal combustion engine.

Mass production of the Model T, priced in the range of $825 to $17000, started in 1908.

The most essential rail lines had already taken shape by 1910, but the coming of automotive transport led to a major upgrading and extension of highways, and the airplane introduced an entirely new mode…

After an auspicious beginning, Froehlich’s little Iowa company grew slowly and began building farm tractors in volume only after World War I. The Waterloo company built a good product, and was acquired by the John Deere Plow Company in 1918.

Indiana mechanic Clessie Cummins built his first, six-horsepower diesel engine in 1919.

In 1923, Alfred Sloan became the president of General Motors.

The federal government had misgivings about allowing lead additives, and in 1925 the Surgeon General temporarily suspended TEL’s use and government scientists secretly approached Ford engineers seeking an alternative.

McLean refitted an oil tanker and made his first trip in 1956, carrying fifty-eight containers from Newark to Houston.

When public concern continued to increase, the Ethyl Corporation was sold in 1962 in the largest leveraged buyout of its time.

Big canals began to be built in the 18th century to link the major manufacturing centers across the country. It connected Worsley with the rapidly growing town of Manchester and its construction cost £168,000 (equivalent of over £22 million in 2013), but its advantages over land and river transport meant that within a year of its opening, the price of coal in Manchester fell by about half.