"Pioneer of rail transport"

Marc Seguin male, deceased (1875): Science writer, Pioneerofrailtransport, Bridge engineer, boiler, lyon, French; Marc Seguin was a French engineer, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge and the tubular steam-engine boiler. Born Annonay near Lyon, France...

Matthew Murray male, deceased (1826): engineer, Pioneerofrailtransport, steam locomotive, English, From Newcastle Upon Tyne, steam engine; Matthew Murray was a steam engine and machine tool manufacturer, who designed and built the first commercially viable steam locomotive, the twin...

Oliver Evans male, deceased (1819): inventor, National Inventors Hall of Fame, patent, Pioneerofrailtransport, American, textile; Oliver Evans (13 September, 1755 - 15 April, 1819) was a United States inventor. Evans was born in Newport, Delaware. At the age of 14 he was...

Peter Crerar male, deceased (1836): Scottish migrant to Nova Scotia, from Pictou County, Nova Scotia, pictou, standard gauge, Pioneerofrailtransport, Breadalbane; Peter Crerar (born 1785 Breadalbane, Scotland - died 5 November 1856 Pictou, Nova Scotia) was a Scottish-Nova Scotian civil engineer. He designed...

Daniel Gooch male, deceased (1889): mechanical engineer, Swindon Works, steam locomotives, blastpipe, Severn Tunnel, Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet…Pioneerofrailtransport, member of the United Kingdom Parliament, Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom; Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet (August 24 1816 - October 15 1889) was first chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway from 1837 to 1864...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel male, deceased (1859): Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, Anglo-French, SS Great Britain, kidney, British…Pioneerofrailtransport, Fellow of the Royal Society; Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 - 15 September 1859), was a British engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western...

Joseph Locke male, deceased (1860): crewe, civil engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society, railway, stafford, warrington…Pioneerofrailtransport; Joseph Locke (9 August 1805- 18 September 1860) was a notable English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway...

David MacPherson male, deceased (1927): Cornell University, civil engineer, Cornell University alumni, Tuberculosis, juarez, Pioneerofrailtransport; David Joseph Macpherson (b. January 12, 1854 Ontario, Canada; d. October 16, 1927, Pasadena, Ca.), was a civil engineer graduate from Cornell...

George Hudson male, deceased (1871): York and North Midland Railway, East Riding of Yorkshire, durham, Pioneerofrailtransport, English, Rail transport in Great Britain…Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire; George Hudson (probably March 10, 1800 - December 14, 1871), English railway financier, known as the "Railway King", was born in Howsham, in the...

Peter Cooper male, deceased (1883): buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery, inventor, United States presidential candidate, Native Americans' rights activist…Pioneerofrailtransport, Friends of Ringwood Manor, embodiment of the elements of monopoly; Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791 - April 4, 1883) was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and candidate for President of the United...

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