Locomotive Seguin is the first
steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, Fuel oil, oil or, rarely, Wood fuel, wood) to heat ...
to use a tubular boiler, a groundbreaking invention that multiplied the developed power by sixfold. Boiling is achieved by circulating the
combustion gases in multiple 'fire tubes' passing through the heating body, significantly increasing the thermal exchange surface and efficiency. The boiler produced of steam per hour instead of , enabling the locomotive to reach a speed of instead of .
Marc Seguin
Marc Seguin (20 April 1786 – 24 February 1875) was a French engineer, inventor of the wire-Wire rope, cable suspension bridge and the multi-tubular steam-engine firetube boiler, boiler.
Early life
Seguin was born in Annonay, Ardèche to Ma ...
patented this invention on December 12, 1827, and it was initially applied to boats navigating the
Rhône River
The Rhône ( , ; Occitan: ''Ròse''; Arpitan: ''Rôno'') is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and Southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea (Gulf ...
. The Seguin locomotive was built in twelve iterations at the Perrache workshops between 1829 and 1835.
History
The locomotive first ran on October 1, 1829, just a few days before George Stephenson's
Rocket
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, with whom Marc Seguin maintained continuous communication. It was used on the second French railway line, connecting
Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne (; Franco-Provençal: ''Sant-Etiève''), also written St. Etienne, is a city and the prefecture of the Loire département, in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regi ...
to
Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...
from 1830 to 1832, where it started passenger service in 1831.
A replica of the locomotive was built between 1982 and 1987 by Gaston Monnier, a mechanical engineering professor at a technical high school in Paris and the founding president of ARPPI (Association for the Reconstruction and Preservation of Industrial Heritage).
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Marc Seguin
Marc Seguin (20 April 1786 – 24 February 1875) was a French engineer, inventor of the wire-Wire rope, cable suspension bridge and the multi-tubular steam-engine firetube boiler, boiler.
Early life
Seguin was born in Annonay, Ardèche to Ma ...
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Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, Fuel oil, oil or, rarely, Wood fuel, wood) to heat ...
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History of the steam engine
The first recorded rudimentary steam engine was the aeolipile mentioned by De Architectura#Roman technology, Vitruvius between 30 and 15 BC and, described by Heron of Alexandria in 1st-century Roman Egypt. Several steam-powered devices were lat ...
References
External links
Model steam locomotive - St. Etienne-Lyon Railway, Science Museum GroupMaking “The Rocket” Fly — Marc Seguin, Medium
Railway locomotives introduced in 1829
Rocket
A rocket (from , and so named for its shape) is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using any surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entirely ...
Early steam locomotives
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