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George Stephenson   /dʒɔrdʒ stˈivənsən/   Listen
George Stephenson

noun
1.
English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848).  Synonym: Stephenson.






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"George Stephenson" Quotes from Famous Books



... come about as the only solution of a deadlock between the stubborn directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, or tramway, then under construction, and their still more stubborn engineer, one George Stephenson. The railway was nearly completed, and the essential question of the motive power to be used had not yet been decided. The most conservative authorities thought it best to stick to the horse; others favoured ...
— The Railway Builders - A Chronicle of Overland Highways • Oscar D. Skelton

... true there were steamboats running between York and Kingston on the Bay of Quinte and the St. Lawrence prior to 1830; but after that date they increased rapidly in number, and were greatly improved. It was on the 15th of September of that year that George Stephenson ran the first locomotive over the line between Liverpool and Manchester—a distance of thirty miles—so that fifty years ago this was the only railway with a locomotive in the world—a fact that can ...
— Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago • Canniff Haight



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