Were railroads invented in the US and exported to britain?

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Were railroads invented in the US and exported to britain?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Go to this site for details... http://inventors.about.com/library/inven...

This site is short and to the point beginning with the fact that "Roads of rails called Wagonways were being used in Germany as early as 1550."

It depends what you mean by 'railroads', as there were many different phases and inventions. For example on February 22, 1804, a locomotive hauled a load of 10 tons of iron, 70 men and five extra wagons the 9 miles between the ironworks at Pen-y-Darron in the town of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales and it took 2 hours.

In 1821, Englishman, Julius Griffiths was the first person to patent a passenger road locomotive.

There seems to be a bit of a parallel, but initially many of the inventions seemed to occur in Europe. So, when the earlier responder says that you have this backwards, he is correct.