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Events
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July events
July 25 – George Stephenson puts his first steam locomotive in service, the Blücher for Killingworth Colliery on Tyneside in England.
Births
January births
January 21 – Wendel Bollman, American designer of the Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge (d. 1884).
January 30 – Ferdinand Schichau, German mechanical engineer and founder of locomotive manufacturing company Schichau-Werke, is born (d. 1896).
May births
May 26 – Wilhelm Engerth, German steam locomotive designer (d. 1884).
September births
September 11 – John Ramsbottom, superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (d. 1897).
Unknown date births
Andrew Barclay, Scottish steam locomotive builder (d. 1900).https://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst394.html Overview of Andrew Barclay 2005-02-09Wear Russell The Locomotive Builders of Kilmarnock 1977 Industrial Railway Society 0-902888-81-1
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