Inventors, manufacturers and industrialists who built railway technology and railway companies, from the first steam locomotive to sleeping cars and mountain railways. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the person an inventor, manufacturer, merchant or industrialist who worked in railways. It excludes civil engineers and locomotive designers. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: Richard Trevithick
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Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771-22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer.
Wikipedia: George Pullman
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George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831, October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist.
Wikipedia: Matthias Baldwin
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Matthias William Baldwin (December 10, 1795, September 7, 1866) was an American inventor and machinery manufacturer, specializing in the production of steam locomotives.
Sylvester Marsh (Wikipedia)
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Sylvester Marsh (September 30, 1803, December 30, 1884) was an American merchant and inventor who designed and built the Mount Washington Cog Railway.
Robert Davidson (inventor) (Wikipedia)
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Robert Davidson (18 April 1804-16 November 1894) was a Scottish inventor who built the first known electric four wheeled car in 1839 and in 1842 the first known electric locomotive.
Wikipedia: Werner von Siemens
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Ernst Werner Siemens (von Siemens from 1888; SEEM-ənz; German: [ˈziːməns, -mɛns]; 13 December 1816-6 December 1892) was a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist.
Wikipedia: George Westinghouse
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George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846, March 12, 1914) was a prolific American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneurial industrialist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Savery (Wikipedia)
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was an English inventor and engineer
Jeronimo de Ayanz y Beaumont (Wikipedia)
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was a Spanish soldier, painter, astronomer, musician and inventor
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