Not long after that, Stephenson opened his own firm built, Robert Stephenson and Company. His most famous prototype,Stephenson’s Rocket, was designed and built for the Rainhill Trials, an 1829 event held by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to choose the best design to power their new loc...
Electrification of Russia’s railroads began after the Great October Socialist Revolution as part of the plan proposed by GOELRO (the State Commission for the Electrification of Russia). The first electric suburban line, the Baku-Sabunchi-Surakhany line, went into operation in 1926. Operation of...
The Erie Railroad (then known as the New York, Lake Erie & Western) pulled off an incredible feat by reaching Chicago through acquisition of the Chicago & Atlantic Railway in 1883.After years of delays and financial troubles the Northern Pacific Railway opened the first transcontinental route into...
His political career aligned well with his business growth, cementing his influence on regional and industrial affairs.However, his greatest legacy was arguably his philanthropy. After the death of his only son, Leland Stanford Jr., at 15, Stanford and his wife decided to use their wealth for ...
Despite the sense that history is one damn thing after another, the visual metaphor of a sequence is wrong. It’s one damn thing on top of another. When we find that railroad infrastructure provided the language for telecommunications networks,even down to the word “online” itself, it isn...