Chapter 5

EARLY HISTORY OF THE LOCOMOTIVE--GEORGE STEPHENSON BEGINS ITS IMPROVEMENT.

Various expedients for 63-88 coal-haulage--Sailing-waggons--Mr. Edgworth's experiments--Cugnot's first locomotive steam-carriage--Murdock's model locomotive--Trevithick's steam-carriage and tram-engine--Blenkinsop's engine--Chapman and Brunton's locomotives--The Wylam waggon-way--Mr. Blackett's experiments--Jonathan Foster--William Hedley--The Wylam engine--Stephenson determines to build a locomotive--Lord Ravensworth--The first Killingworth engine described--The steam-blast invented--Stephenson's second locomotive