John Blenkinsop (1783 to 1831) was an English mining engineer and an inventor of steam locomotives, who designed the first practical railway locomotive. He was born in Felling, County Durham, the son of a stonemason, and was apprenticed to his cousin Thomas Barnes, a Northumberland coal viewer. From 1808 he became agent to Charles John Brandling, who owned collieries on his Middleton estate near Leeds and whose family came from Felling. His career therefore lay inside the coal industry, and his locomotive design belongs to the story of steam power at the colliery, where the new engines first found regular work.
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was an English mining engineer and an inventor of steam locomotives
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John Blenkinsop (1783-1831) was a British mining engineer and an inventor in the area of steam locomotives
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John Blenkinsop (1783-1831) was a British mining engineer and an inventor in the area of steam locomotives
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John Blenkinsop (1783-1831) was a British mining engineer and an inventor in the area of steam locomotives
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was an English mining engineer and an inventor of steam locomotives
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was apprenticed to his cousin, Thomas Barnes, a Northumberland coal viewer
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