History of rail transport Richard Trevithick, a British engineer born in Cornwall. This used high-pressure steam to drive the engine by one power stroke. The transmission system employed a large flywheel to even out the action of the piston rod. On 21 February 1804, the world's first steam-powered railway journey took place when Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. Trevithick later demonstrated a locomotive operating upon a piece of circular rail track in Bloomsbury, London, the "Catch Me Who Can", but never got beyond the experimental stage with railway locomotives,
If You Can't Rock Me If You Can't Rock Me "If You Can't Rock Me" is a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards that was first released as the opening track to the Rolling Stones 1974 album "It's Only Rock 'n Roll". The lyrics play off the dual meaning of the word rock, referring both to rock 'n' roll music and to sex. The song begins with lead singer Jagger singing about being on stage lusting for sex with the women in the audience. He's not looking for marriage, just to sleep with one of the women for the night. According to "Rolling