jul 1, 1804 - Züge

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The first commercial steam-powered device was a water pump, developed in 1698 by Thomas Savery.

James Watt, a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer, greatly improved the steam engine of Thomas Newcomen, hitherto used to pump water out of mines. Watt developed a reciprocating engine in 1769, capable of powering a wheel.

The first full-scale working railway steam locomotive was built in the United Kingdom in 1804 by Richard Trevithick.

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In 1515, Cardinal Matthäus Lang wrote a description of the Reisszug, a funicular railway at the Hohensalzburg Fortress in Austria. The line originally used wooden rails and a hemp haulage rope and was operated by human or animal power, through a treadwheel.[8] The line still exists and remains operational, although in updated form. It may be the oldest operational railway.[9]

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