On March 3, 1857, Congress under James Buchanan authorized the U. S. postmaster general, Aaron Brown to contract for delivery of the U. S. mail from Saint Louis, Missouri to San Francisco, California.

In 1857, renamed the Union Line, it won a contract to carry mail to South Africa.

On 11 September 1857 Hugo signed a contract with Hetzel, reserving the right to alter the project's title.

Luck and Mountfort formed their partnership circa 1857 when they made a bid to gain the contract for designing Government House, Auckland.

The first contract was signed with Labro, a British member of parliament, in January 1857.

In November 1857 a contract for £ 6347, was awarded to William Wright for the extension.

Also in 1857 the company received a contract to manufacture Adams revolvers under license for the U. S. government.

In 1857 Howden began work on the design and supply of boilers and steam engines for the marine industry ; his first contract was with Hendersons to supply the Anchor Liner Ailsa Craig with a compound steam engine and water boilers, using steam at 100 lb pressure.

In 1853, the newly formed Memphis and Charleston Railroad ( a stretch of railroad that starts at Memphis, TN, and ends in Charleston, SC ) decided to build a station at Scottsboro and did so in 1857.

Beale traveled through the present day Kingman in 1857 surveying the road and in 1859 to build the road.

In 1857 the new stone arch cost $ 3, 200 to build and was paid for by the Willimantic Linen Co. ( Willimantic Thread ) and an eight percent tax hike on the town ’ s richest citizens.

Although the " Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad ", was chartered in 1857, PM did not take over operations of the lines through plymouth, nor did it build anything along the lines, until during or after 1900, with the merger of three railroad lines-the " Flint and Pere Marquette ", the " Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western ", and the " Chicago and West Michigan " Railways.

The Railroad Company started to build rail lines from Pittsburgh in 1857, to Canonsburg in 1869, finally completed to Washington in 1871.

File: Msjd al3thman. jpg | Minaret of Al Othman Mosque in Jebla, Kuwait ; build in 1857.

Plans were produced as required by British law in November 1856 and the West Somerset Railway Company was incorporated on 17 August 1857 by an Act of Parliament to build a railway from Taunton to Watchet.

The site on which the Flatiron Building would stand was bought in 1857 by Amos Eno, who would shortly build the Fifth Avenue Hotel on a site diagonally across from it.

In 1857, President James Buchanan appointed Beale to survey and build a wagon road from Fort Defiance, New Mexico to the Colorado River, on the border between Arizona and California.

The Reading and Columbia Railroad was chartered in 1857 to build from Reading southwest to Columbia on the Susquehanna River.

As the school struggled, former Andover resident John Proctor, the inventor of the threaded wood screw, returned, in 1857, to build up the town.

1857 – The company founder Antonín PETROF goes to Vienna to learn how to build grand pianos

He died a few months after his son, on 12 August 1857, at Itchen Stoke, Hampshire, where another son, Charles Ranken Conybeare, had recently taken up the incumbency of the parish church, and a third son, Henry Conybeare, was to build a new church to replace it.

Lord Windsor, later the first Earl of Plymouth ( 1857 – 1923 ) commissioned Bodley and Garner to build the current house in 1884 – 91.

The Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad was chartered January 24, 1851, to build west from Jacksonville, Florida, and construction began in 1857.

On March 6, 1857 a supplement to the M & E charter was passed, authorizing it to buy the new alignment ( until then owned by the NJRR as their East Newark Branch ) and build a new line to Jersey City, as long as it passed under Bergen Hill in a tunnel.

The Quakake Railroad was chartered on April 25, 1857 to build a connection between the Beaver Meadow Railroad ( the Lehigh Valley Railroad's Hazleton Branch ) and the Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad.

He was noticed for outstanding technical skills, so when king Vittorio Emanuele II decided to build the Mont Cenis Tunnel between Bardonecchia and Modane in 1857, Sommeiller was appointed head of design and construction.

On September 25, 1857 the Chicago and Cincinnati Railroad was chartered in Indiana to build a line from Logansport northwest to Valparaiso.

The Galena and Illinois River Railroad was chartered in Illinois on February 18, 1857, to build from Galena through Chicago to the Indiana state line towards Lansing, Michigan.

The construction of the first major trunk railway in the Empire, the Vienna-Trieste Austrian Southern Railway, was completed in 1857, a valuable asset for trade and the supply of coal.

In 1846 Królewska Huta received a railway track to Świętochłowice and Mysłowice, in 1857 to Bytom and till 1872 to all major cities in the Silesian region.

Until the coming of the railway in 1857, Beckenham was a small village in the county of Kent with almost completely rural surroundings: once a family of entrepreneurs began the building of villas here, its population soared from 2000 to 26, 000 during 1850-1900 and throughout the rest of the century.

In 1857, the Wason Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Massachusetts-one of the United States ' first makers of railway passenger coach equipment-produced America's first, specifically designed sleeping car.

They constructed the Wuppertal monorail (" Wuppertaler Schwebebahn ") and the first spectacular steel bridges like the Großhesseloher Brücke in Munich in 1857 and the Müngsten railway bridge between 1893 and 1897.

Ice-breaking was stopped before the winter of 1857, and traders were further encouraged by preferential tolls to use the railway rather than the canal.

In the middle of the 19th century, De Pinte intersected by railway lines, the railway Ghent-Kortrijk ( 1839 ) and Gent-Oudenaarde ( 1857 ).

The Dessau-Bitterfeld line ( opened on 17 August 1857 ) was electrified in 1911, the first fully electrified long-distance railway in Germany.

A railway did not serve the town until 1850 with a link to Rugby but this was quickly followed by links to Leicester and London in 1857 and to Northampton in 1859.

St Kilda became a separate municipality on 24 April 1857, and in the same year, the railway line and railway station connected St Kilda to Melbourne city and a loop line to Windsor.

The Esplanade Hotel was built in 1878 overlooking St Kilda Beach and the George Hotel was built in 1889 at the railway terminus on Fitzroy Street, on the site of the Seaview hotel ( 1857 ).

Illustration ( 1889 ) of Locomotion No 1 with tender and waggon ( captioned ' Stockton & Darlington Engine and Car ') from the period after 1857 when it was set on a pedestal near North Road railway station until moved to Darlington Bank Top in 1892.

The next railway to be constructed was also the first state railways, decided in the Parliament of Norway in 1857.

He became a railway contractor and was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1857 to 1867.

* Everard Calthrop ( 1857 – 1927 ), railway engineer and parachute pioneer, lived at ' Goldings ' from the early 1900s onwards

The GWR itself opened Yeovil Pen Mill railway station on the east side of the town as part of its route from London on 1 September 1856 ( this was extended to Weymouth on 1 January 1857 ), and the original line from Taunton was connected to this.

Green coloured street mail boxes were installed in 1848, the same year stamped envelopes were issued ; orange mailboxes for same day service appeared near railway stations in 1851, and post stamps appeared in 1857.

Grange-over-Sands railway station, which serves the town, was opened by the Ulverston and Lancaster Railway on 1 September 1857 and is now served by the Furness Line, giving connections to Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness to the west, and Lancaster, Preston and Manchester ( and its airport ) to the east.

In 1857 the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway opened Devizes railway station and the branch line from Holt Junction, on its line between and.

Devizes railway station was opened in 1857 and initially served as a main stop on the line that was named after the town: the Devizes Branch Line.

The first rails made from steel were made by Robert Forester Mushet in 1857, and were laid experimentally at Derby railway station on the Midland Railway in England.