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Lives of the Engineers

by Samuel Smiles

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Chapter I — Newcastle and the Great Northern Coal-Field
  4. 4Chapter II — Wylam and Dewley Burn — George Stephenson’s Early Years
  5. 5Chapter III — Engineman at Willington Quay and Killingworth
  6. 6Chapter IV — The Stephensons at Killingworth — Education and Self-E…
  7. 7Chapter V — Early History of the Locomotive — George Stephenson Beg…
  8. 8Chapter VI — Invention of the “Geordy” Safety-Lamp
  9. 9Chapter VII — George Stephenson’s Further Improvements in the Locom…
  10. 10Chapter VIII — George Stephenson Engineer of the Stockton and Darli…
  11. 11Chapter IX — The Liverpool and Manchester Railway Projected
  12. 12Chapter X — Chat Moss — Construction of the Railway
  13. 13Chapter XI — Robert Stephenson’s Residence in Colombia, and Return…
  14. 14Chapter XII — Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and…
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Robert Stephenson Constructs the London and Birmingh…
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Manchester and Leeds, and Midland Railways — Stephens…
  17. 17Chapter XV — George Stephenson’s Coal Mines…
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Robert Stephenson’s Career…
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Robert Stephenson’s Tubular Bridges at Menai and Conway
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — George Stephenson’s Closing Years — Illness and Death
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Robert Stephenson’s Victoria Bridge, Lower Canada — I…

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