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- Pullman developed a railroad sleeping car, the Pullman sleeper or "palace car". These were designed after the packet boats that travelled the Erie Canal of his youth in Albion. The first one was finished in 1864.
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George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town in Chicago for the workers who manufactured it.
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Jan 11, 2019 · George Pullman did not invent the sleeping car—most of the credit went to Theodore T. Woodruff, an upstate New York wagon maker whose car debuted in 1857. But Pullman contributed his share of...
May 15, 2019 · George Pullman invented the sleeping car, revolutionizing American railroad travel. Learn more about how it came about and the price he paid.
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George Mortimer Pullman (1831-1897) made his name famous as the designer of the eponymous sleeping car, which made its debut in 1865. But sleeping cars had been around since the 1830s - so...
The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lit) is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the American innovator of the sleeper car.
George M. Pullman (born March 3, 1831, Brocton, New York, U.S.—died October 19, 1897, Chicago) was an American industrialist and inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, a luxurious railroad coach designed for overnight travel.
Pullman first remodeled some old coaches from the Chicago and Alton Railroad into sleeping cars. By 1863 he had finalized a design for what he called the “Pioneer” car, and he forged ahead on a design for what would become known as the Pullman sleeper, finishing it in 1864.
