How will historian see USA today in 200 years from now?

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

July 25th
George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive (according to this USA didn't have trains yet)

Trevithick overlooked again. Stephenson may have built his first steam locomotive in 1814, but it wasn't the first, Trevithick beat him by a decade.



First US railroad opened in 1830 between Baltimore and a point on the Ohio river, at around the same time in the UK the first inter-city railway was opened between Liverpool and Manchester.