The Birth of the Railways (TRIH ep 140)
1825 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview historian and author Dan Jackson about the origins, technology and cultural impact of railways, with special emphasis on Britain and the North East. The discussion traces early trackways from antiquity and German mining wagonways to wooden wagonways and the first iron rails, then follows the alignment of rail tracks with steam-power advances (Newcomen, Watt) and coal-driven demands. Key engineers—Matthew Murray, William Hedley, George Stephens...
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Around 1825
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Battle of Waterloo (British perspective) (1815)