Events July events July 25 – George Stephenson puts his first steam locomotive in service, the Blücher for Killingworth Colliery on Tyneside in England. Births January births January 21 – Wendel Bollman, American designer of the Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge (d. 1884). January 30 – Ferdinand Schichau, German mechanical engineer and founder of locomotive manufacturing company Schichau-Werke, is born (d. 1896). May births May 26 – Wilhelm Engerth, German steam locomotive designer (d. 1884). September births September 11 – John Ramsbottom, superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (d. 1897). Unknown date births Andrew Barclay, Scottish steam locomotive builder (d. 1900). Deaths References