INTRODUCTION.
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
CHAPTER I. Newcastle and the Great Northern Coal-Field .
CHAPTER II. Wylam and Dewley Burn George Stephenson's Early Years .
CHAPTER III. Engineman at Willington Quay and Killingworth .
CHAPTER IV. The Stephensons at Killingworth Education and Self-Education of Father and Son .
CHAPTER V. Early History of the Locomotive George Stephenson begins its Improvement .
CHAPTER VI. Invention of the " Geordy " Safety-Lamp .
CHAPTER VII. George Stephenson's further Improvements in the
CHAPTER VIII. George Stephenson Engineer of the Stockton and Darlington Railway .
CHAPTER IX. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway projected .
CHAPTER X. Chat Moss Construction of the Railway .
CHAPTER XI. Robert Stephenson's Residence in Colombia , and
CHAPTER XII. Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , and Extension of the Railway System .
CHAPTER XIII. Robert Stephenson constructs the London and Birmingham Railway .
CHAPTER XIV. Manchester and Leeds , and Midland Railways
CHAPTER XV. George Stephenson's Coal Mines Appears at
CHAPTER XVI. Robert Stephenson's Career The Stephensons and
CHAPTER XVII. Robert Stephenson's Tubular Bridges at Menai and Conway .
CHAPTER XVIII. George Stephenson's Closing Years Illness and Death .
CHAPTER XIX. Robert Stephenson's Victoria Bridge , Lower Canada
INDEX.
NOTES.
This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler.
George Stephenson
LIVES
of the
ENGINEERS.
THE LOCOMOTIVE.
GEORGE AND ROBERT STEPHENSON.
BY SAMUEL SMILES,
author of ‘character,’ ‘self-help,’ etc.
“Bid Harbours open, Public Ways extend;
Bid Temples, worthier of God, ascend;
Bid the broad Arch the dang’rous flood contain,
The Mole projected break the roaring main,
Back to his bounds their subject sea command,
And roll obedient rivers through the land.
These honours, Peace to happy Britain brings;
These are imperial works, and worthy kings.”
Pope.
A NEW AND REVISED EDITION.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1879.
The right of Translation is reserved.
