The railroad was invented in the early 1800s during the Industrial Revolution. House drawn wagons could not deliver the amount of goods that were being manufactured. A House drawn wagon was basically wagons attached to horses. The House drawn wagons would usually take people places but also try to bring things to certain places but that all changed as the nation grew bigger and needed more goods it would take to long to go and come back so they came up with railroads.
The new machines powered by steam from boiling water, needed multiple quantities of coal to fuel their engines. Equipment parts that were used to create railroads already existed, they were just not put together properly to create a railroad. An idea that sparked the invention of the railroads was the acts and machines used for mining. In mining they import the gold or what ever value their looking for through a cart and on wooden tracks it slides out of the cave or mountain. Inventors thought from that of how to create a railroad.
Englishman Richard Trevithick and Samuel Slater built the first locomotive for iron works to run successfully on rails. They called it a locomotive because it meant to move from one place to another.
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Again good information, but if it is supposed to be an essay we need to work on the structure of the piece. We need to conference about proofreading and making sentence structures more sophicated to avoid the repetition of starting sentences the same way and using the same words repeatedly.
I didn't know that this was supposed to be an essay at first. Um... yea
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