Steam Locomotives
(A lack of) vision, purpose, network, knowledge, leadership
The year 1689 saw the first commercial application to the millennia-old idea to use boiling water to produce mechanical motion. What started in Thomas Savery’s water pump evolved into the main power source of the industrial revolution over the subsequent 150 years or so.
The use of high-pressure steam reduced the weight of the engine so much that eventually it could be put on wheels. That gave birth to the steam locomotive. In 1825, George Stephenson built the Locomotion No. 1 (originally called Active) for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public steam railway in the world. With the success of his 1829 Rocket, Stephenson’s company was established as the ...
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