Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials
1829 · Event
Stephenson's Rocket proves steam locomotion is viable, transforming transport.
On these timelines: Industrial Revolution, Master
More from Industrial Revolution
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- Spinning jenny invented (1764)
- Arkwright's water frame (1769)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- Newcomen atmospheric steam engine (1712)
- Factory Act 1833 (1833)
Around 1829
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821)
- Victorian era begins (1837)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828)