the bridge over the Oglio at Palazzolo. December events December 15 – George S. Griggs is awarded for a steam locomotive fire arch developed by Matthew Baird. Unknown date events Wrocław Główny railway station in Silesia is completed. Aretas Blood succeeds O. W. Bayley as superintendent of American steam locomotive builder Manchester Locomotive Works. Daniel Drew joins the Board of Directors for the Erie Railroad. Ginery Twichell becomes president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad in the United States. The first shipment of dressed beef by rail is sent from the Chicago Stockyards; the beef is packed in ice and shipped in conventional boxcars. The first rails made from steel are made by Robert Forester Mushet early in the year and laid experimentally at Derby railway station on the Midland Railway in England. The rails prove far more durable than the iron rails they replace and remain in use until 1873. Births January births January 31 – George Jackson Churchward, Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of England 1902–1922 (d. 1933). November births November 17 – William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1920–1933 (d. 1940). Deaths April deaths April 20 – George Hennet, English railway contractor (b. 1799). May deaths May 8 – Jasper Grosvenor, American financier who partnered with Thomas Rogers and Morris Ketchum to form Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor (b. 1794). References