Lives of the Engineers / The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson

by Samuel Smiles

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Contents

1. Introduction
2. Chapter I. Newcastle and the Great Northern Coal-Field
3. Chapter II. Wylam and Dewley Burn—George Stephenson’s Early Years
4. Chapter III. Engineman at Willington Quay and Killingworth
5. Chapter IV. The Stephensons at Killingworth—Education and Self-Education of Father and Son
6. Chapter V. Early History of the Locomotive—George Stephenson begins its Improvement
7. Chapter VI. Invention of the “Geordy” Safety-Lamp
8. Chapter VII. George Stephenson’s further Improvements in the Locomotive—The Hetton Railway—Robert Stephenson as Viewer’s Apprentice and Student
9. Chapter VIII. George Stephenson Engineer of the Stockton and Darlington Railway
10. Chapter IX. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway projected
11. Chapter X. Chat Moss—Construction of the Railway
12. Chapter XI. Robert Stephenson’s Residence in Colombia, and Return—The Battle of the Locomotive—“The Rocket.”
13. Chapter XII. Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and Extension of the Railway System
14. Chapter XIII. Robert Stephenson constructs the London and Birmingham Railway
15. Chapter XIV. Manchester and Leeds, and Midland Railways—Stephenson’s Life at Alton—Visit to Belgium—General Extension of Railways and their Results
16. Chapter XV. George Stephenson’s Coal Mines—Appears at Mechanics’ Institutes—His Opinion on Railway Speeds—Atmospheric System—Railway Mania—Visits to Belgium and Spain
17. Chapter XVI. Robert Stephenson’s Career—The Stephensons and Brunel—East Coast Route to Scotland—Royal Border Bridge, Berwick—High Level Bridge, Newcastle
18. Chapter XVII. Robert Stephenson’s Tubular Bridges at Menai and Conway
19. Chapter XVIII. George Stephenson’s Closing Years—Illness and Death
20. Chapter XIX. Robert Stephenson’s Victoria Bridge, Lower Canada—Illness and Death—Stephenson Characteristics
21. Notes

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