!!!Gerstner, Franz Anton von

b. Prague (Czech Republic), April 19, 1796, 
d. Philadelphia (USA), April 12, 1840, expert on railway technology; 
son of Franz Joseph von  Gerstner. Professor at the Vienna Polytechnic 
School, supervised the construction proposed by his father of the 
first horse-drawn railway from Gmunden via Linz to Budweis (the first 
public railway on the European continent) and completed the line 
Budweis- Kerschbaum (62,2 km) in 1828; went to England in 1829 after 
differences of opinion with the shareholders, to Russia in 1834 and to 
the USA in 1838.



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