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In 1811, JOHN BLENKINSOP used an engine to con- 

 vey coal from his Middleton colliery to Leeds. In 1813, 

 William Hedley built two locomotives for hauling coal 

 from Wylam Colliery, near Newcastle. 



In 1814, an important step was made: an engine, 

 called the Blucher, and invented by GEORGE STEPHEN- 

 SON, drew a train of eight wagons, weighing 30 tons, at 

 a speed of four miles an hour. 



In 1 82 1, a railway was built between Stockton and 

 Darlington : this line was over 38 miles in length. It 

 was opened on the 27th of September, 1825. The first 

 train was drawn by one engine, driven by Stephenson, 

 and attained a speed of ten to fifteen miles an hour. On 

 the 10th of October of the same year, a daily coach 

 was brought into use to carry passengers. 



The first high-speed locomotive of the modern type 

 was constructed by George and Robert Stephenson. It 

 drew a train 35 miles in 48 minutes on the Liverpool 

 and Manchester railway, which was opened in 1830. By 

 this achievement, a revolution in the methods of travelling 

 had taken place. 



On the continent, the first railways were built in the 

 Lowlands : the Brussels and Malines line was opened in 

 1834, the Amsterdam and Haarlem line in 1835. 



It was at Paris, in 1803, that ROBERT FULTON 8 first 

 succeeded in propelling a boat by steam power. In 1807, 

 a steamship called the Clermont, constructed by him in 

 association with ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON and engined by 

 the firm Boulton and Watt, of Birmingham, began to 

 operate on the Hudson between New York and Albany. 

 This was the first steam navigation line. 



About the time when the final inventions of James 



8 Born in 1765, in Little Britain (now Fulton), Pa. 



