Public Transportation In The 1800's

 Owen Siegel

Mr. Roddy

IHSS

4/29/22

IHSS Public Transportation in the 1800s

As cities continued to grow and evolve, so did Public Transportation. The 1800s saw a huge amount of new technological innovations when it came to transportation. One of the first new developments in the early 1800s was the addition of rails on everyday streets. This could first be seen in New York City and benefited public transportation by lowering the amount of energy exerted from pulling vehicles across the city. This was extremely beneficial at the time because almost all public transportation like the omnibus and soon-to-be cable car, required something to pull it along the ground. Speaking of the cable car, busier cities, and a need for a more uniform form of transportation instead of horses gave way to the invention of the cable car, which relied on a similar concept of a vehicle being pulled by steam power by a cable. The first cable car was invented by Andrew Smith Hallidie and gave way for many different steam-powered engines to be invented, and also worked surprisingly well in weather conditions that would majorly affect horses in the past. Of course, one of the next focuses of enhancing public transportation was to stop relying on cable cars and give vehicles the ability to power themselves. The mid-1800s saw the beginning of using steam locomotives, which used the expansion of steam to create a force that could move itself and other vehicles. This was a huge innovation as vehicles being pulled by cables could be halted by a variety of hazards, since the cable could snap and completely halt the transportation of the vehicle. Steam locomotives also provided much more efficiency and speed and gave vehicles the ability to pull multiple other vehicles behind them. I also found it interesting that the geography and layout of cities were heavily influenced by the evolution of transportation, and they both relied on each other to grow.



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