The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer

By: Samuel, Jr. Smiles

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A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812 1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period, paying particular attention to engineers. His first biography was of George Stephenson (1781 1848), whom he met at the opening of the North Midland Railway in 1840. After Stephenson died, Smiles wrote a memoir of him for Eliza Cook's Journal. With the permission of Stephenson's son, Robert, this evolved into the first full biography of the great engineer, published in 1857 and reissued here in its revised third edition. This detailed and lively account of Stephenson's life, which proved very popular, charts his education and youth, his crucial contribution to the development of Britain's railways, and his relationships with many notables of the Victorian world. It remains of interest to the general reader as well as historians of engineering, transport and business."

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Preface
Early years
Begins a career of labour
Engineman at Newburn
Brakesman at Black Callerton
Marriage, and housekeeping at Willington Quay
Brakesman at West Moor, Killingworth
Colliery engine-wright at Killingworth
The beginnings of railways and locomotives
George Stephenson's first locomotives
Invents the 'Geordy' safety lamp
Controversy as to the invention of the safety lamp
Further improvements in the locomotive
Education of his son
Railway pioneers
First survey of the Liverpool and Manchester railway
Mr Stephenson appointed engineer of the Stockton and Darlington Railway
Completion and opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway
Mr Stephenson appointed to survey a railway from Liverpool to Manchester
Mr Stephenson examined before the parliamentary committee on the Liverpool and Manchester bill
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway bill carried, and Mr Stephenson appointed engineer
A prize offered for the best locomotive engine
The building of the 'Rocket'
The competition of locomotives at Rainhill
The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Extension of the railway system
Advance of public opinion in favour of railways
Mr Stephenson engineer of the Manchester and Leeds, and Midland railways
Surveys of lines to Scotland and Holyhead
Mr Stephenson and the new school of fast engineers
Mr Stephenson's partial retirement from the profession
The railway mania
Mr Stephenson's connection with Mr Hudson
Mr Stephenson's connection with foreign railways
Residence at Tapton
Closing years
His character
R©sum© of the railway system and its results
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