biography
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| (1779–1843)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in Newburn, Tyne and Wear, NE England, UK. A colliery official, he patented a design for a railway traction engine using smooth wheels on smooth rails. His locomotive was known as Puffing Billy, and was the first commercial steam locomotive, hauling coal trucks a distance of about 5 mi from the mine at Wylam to the dockside at Lemington-on-Tyne. |
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