What year was the first railroad built?
The “where” that was left out of your question will have a direct result for the validity of an answer. But, for the sake of trivia: The very first trains were used to haul material out of mines in France in the 1540s. Wooden carts on wooden rails utilizing horsepower. Here’s a good one. If someone asks when the first “steam engine” was built, you can tell them it was built by Heron of Alexandria nearly 2,000 years ago. A sphere that had two tubes coming out of a ball mounted on a horizontal axis, not only suspending the sphere but supplying it with steam, the jets of steam causing the sphere to rotate. It was treated as a novelty and nothing more. Just think of it. If Heron had made that crucial leap forward in realizing what the device would mean to industry and transportation, then the “Industrial Revolution” would have happened nearly 1,800 years before it did. How different would our world be today….
