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19th century

 * 1831 – The first boiler explosion in the United States occurs when the engineer on the Best Friend of Charleston ties the steam safety pressure release valve shut.
 * 1852 – The Somerset Central Railway in England is authorized.
 * 1869 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Topeka, reaches Carbondale, Kansas.
 * 1872 – The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Newton, Kansas, reaches Hutchinson.
 * 1892 – Brienz Rothorn Bahn, in Switzerland, opens.