INTA 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8-9: Barentin, Atmospheric Railway, Snowplow
21 Nov 2016
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*americans engineers began to cross atlantic to learn how to build steam locomotive and how to lay down railway lines. America were horse-drawn or worked over hilly ground with inclined planes, but after opening of stockton-darlington line there was an enthusiasm for steam engines. *horatio allen traveled to england and met with george stephenson and during his trip his realized that steam locomotive were the future and they already worked well and were bound to improve. The problem was locomotive weighing several tons on wooden structures and with wood fuel. Wooden rails, at best, a strip of iron along the top. Timber wrapped and rotted and became twisted when exposed to sun. America could not afford to build railways to the standard of britain. In united states there was a need for improvement in transport for the movement of goods and raw materials along the eastern seaboard and mountains of developing lands to the west.
