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- He gained a reputation for managing the primitive steam engines employed in mines, and worked in a number of different coalmines in the northeast of England and in Scotland.
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George Stephenson, English engineer and principal inventor of the railroad locomotive. When railroad building spread rapidly throughout Britain, Europe, and North America, George Stephenson was the chief guide of the revolutionary transportation medium.
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George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer during the Industrial Revolution. [1] Renowned as the "Father of Railways", [2] Stephenson was considered by the Victorians as a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement.
George Stephenson was born on 9 June 1781 near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His father was an engineman at a coalmine. Stephenson himself worked at the mine and learned to read and write in his spare...
Aug 12, 2016 · In 1814, Mr Stephenson constructed his first locomotive, the Blucher, to haul coal at Killingworth Colliery near Newcastle. It was used to transport eight loaded coal wagons weighing 30...
During the early 19th century, George Stephenson held a number of different jobs around the north east and in Scotland, working on and looking after these early industrial machines. These were hard times, particularly after his first wife (and mother of Robert) died in 1806.
Mar 6, 2017 · George Stephenson was born on June 9, 1781, in the coal mining village of Wylam, England. His father, Robert Stephenson, was a poor, hard-working man who supported his family entirely from wages of twelve shillings a week. Wagons loaded with coal passed through Wylam several times a day.
The elder statesman of a renowned father-and-son duo of legendary British engineers, George Stephenson was born in June 1781 in Wylam, Northumberland, England. His best works focused on the...
