!!!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. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Gerstner,_Franz_Anton_von|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]