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The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson

by Samuel Smiles

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Preface — To the Eighth Edition, 1864
  3. 3Early Inventors in Locomotion
  4. 4Chapter II — Early Locomotive Models
  5. 5Chapter III — The Cornish Locomotive — Memoir of Richard Trevithick
  6. 6Lives of George and Robert Stephenson — Chapter I — The Newcastle C…
  7. 7Chapter II — Newburn and Callerton — George Stephenson Learns to Be…
  8. 8Chapter III — Engine-Man at Willington Quay and Killingworth
  9. 9Chapter IV — The Stephensons at Killingworth — Education and Self-E…
  10. 10Chapter V — The Locomotive Engine — George Stephenson Begins Its Im…
  11. 11Chapter VI — Invention of the “Geordy” Safety-Lamp
  12. 12Chapter VII — George Stephenson’s Farther Improvements in the Locom…
  13. 13Chapter VIII — George Stephenson Engineer of the Stockton and Darli…
  14. 14Chapter IX — The Liverpool and Manchester Railway Projected
  15. 15Chapter X — Parliamentary Contest on the Liverpool and Manchester Bill
  16. 16Chapter XI — Chat Moss — Construction of the Railway
  17. 17Chapter XII — Robert Stephenson’s Residence in Colombia, and Return…
  18. 18Chapter XIII — Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and…
  19. 19Chapter XIV — Robert Stephenson Constructs the London and Birmingha…
  20. 20Chapter XV — Manchester and Leeds, and Midland Railways — Stephenso…
  21. 21Chapter XVI — George Stephenson’s Coal-Mines…
  22. 22Chapter XVII — Robert Stephenson’s Career…
  23. 23Chapter XVIII — Chester and Holyhead Railway — Menai and Conway Bri…
  24. 24Chapter XIX — Closing Years of George Stephenson’s Life — Illness a…
  25. 25Chapter XX — Robert Stephenson’s Victoria Bridge, Lower Canada — Il…

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