George Stephenson- the Rocket

The coal industry had utilized using wooden planks with iron rods to move coal cars a long time before Stephenson set out to create the steam engine, but it was really in 1816 once a heavier rail was invented that could hold steam engines that experiments began to occur. In 1825, after ten years of trial and error, Stephenson managed to create an effective locomotive. less than five years later the Rocket was born. Connecting liverpool and Manchester, the Rocket zipped along at an impressive sixteen miles per hour. Though it did not set any speed records we might see, it was an important breakthrough that was built upon by other inventors in the future.