User:Tompw/steam timeline
- 1803: Pen-y-darren, 0-4-0. First steam locomotive. [1] Also first on smooth rails.[2]
- 1808: Catch me who can, 0-4-0. Exhibted in London
- 1812: Wylam Dilly, ??
- 1812-14: Puffing Billy, 0-4-0. First with twin cylinders, which were vertical and located outside the boiler. Drove wheel via pivoted beams (liek a beam engine). Had double-flanged wheels.
- 1812: Salamanca. First commercially successful steam locomotive. Was rack-and-pinion drive, and single-flanged running wheels. [3]
- 1814: Blücher, 0-4-0. First to use unaided single-flanged wheels for traction.
- 1825: Locomotion No 1, 0-4-0. Hauled the first train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
- 1829:
- Rainhill trials
- Rocket, 0-2-2. First to use a multi-tube boiler, and first to use a blast pipe. Had inclined cylinders, later changed to horizontal.
- 1830: Planet, 2-2-0. First locomotive to employ inside cylinders.
- ^ [1]
- ^ Robert Kirkby, Richard Shelton; et al. (October 1990). Engineering in History. New York: Dover Publications Inc. pp. pp 274 - 275. ISBN 0-486-26412-2.
{{cite book}}:|pages=has extra text (help); Explicit use of et al. in:|last=(help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Hamilton Ellis (1968). The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Railways. The Hamlyn Publishing Group. p. 20.