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• Oliver Evans
  Oliver Evans
  Oliver Evans was an American inventor. Evans was born in Newport, Delaware to a family of Welsh settlers. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a wheelwright....
  
   is awarded a U.S. patent
  Patent
  A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
  
   for his "steam carriage," a design that is believed by some historians to have influenced Richard Trevithick
  Richard Trevithick
  Richard Trevithick was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall. His most significant success was the high pressure steam engine and he also built the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive...
  
  's work on early steam locomotive
  Steam locomotive
  A steam locomotive is a railway locomotive that produces its power through a steam engine. These locomotives are fueled by burning some combustible material, usually coal, wood or oil, to produce steam in a boiler, which drives the steam engine...
  
  s.

October births

• October 8 – John Ruggles
  John Ruggles
  John Ruggles was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. He served in several important state legislative and judicial positions before serving in the U.S. Senate....
  
  , awarded for improved driving wheel
  Driving wheel
  On a steam locomotive, a driving wheel is a powered wheel which is driven by the locomotive's pistons...
  
  s (d. 1874).

Unknown date births

• Gridley Bryant
  Gridley Bryant
  Gridley Bryant was an American construction engineer who ended up building the first commercial railroad in the United States and inventing most of the basic technologies involved in it...
  
  , inventor of many basic railroad technologies including track and wheels (d. 1867)