Steam Engines and Transport Innovators
Patented: History of Inventions
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Stevenson and the Steam Engine
George Stevenson met Edward Pease, the Quaker merchant who wanted to build a horse drawn railway. He persuaded him to make it a locomotive railway instead or as well. That's sort of an incredible revolutionary change in the way human beings move around the planet and the speed at which they could go. But when you look into the detail, you find that what Stevenson was doing to the rails was just as important as what he wasdoing to the engines. And there's always a context as well. It's always, you know, why things happen at a particular time.
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