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Lives of the Engineers (George and Robert Stephenson) by Samuel Smiles
George Stephenson did not invent the steam engine, that was due to Newcomen and later to James Watt. He did not invent the steam locomotive, that was due to a number of people including Cugnot, Trevithick and others. He did not invent the Railway. Railways or tramways had been in use for two hundred years before Stephenson. The reason why Stephenson was known as ‘The father of the steam locomotive’ was that he took a primitive, unreliable and wholly uneconomic device and turning it into an efficient machine not very different to those which ran until fifty or so years ago, married it with the...
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Episodes
00 - Introduction Part 1 02.01.2026 27:17
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01 - Introduction Part 2 01.01.2026 30:24
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02 - Chapter 1 Newcastle and the Great Northern Coalfield 31.12.2025 19:25
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03 - Chapter 2 George Stephenson's Early Years 30.12.2025 35:16
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04 - Chapter 3 Engineman at Killingworth 29.12.2025 29:46
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05 - Chapter 4 The Stephensons at Killingworth 28.12.2025 27:24
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06 - Chapter 5 Early History of the Locomotive 27.12.2025 49:00
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07 - Chapter 6 Invention of the 'Geordie' Safety Lamp 26.12.2025 36:43
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08 - Chapter 7 Further Improvements of the Locomotive 25.12.2025 28:18
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09 - Chapter 8 - George Stephenson, Engineer of the Stockton and Darlington Railway 24.12.2025 42:26
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10 - Chapter 9 - The Liverpool and Manchester Railway Projected 23.12.2025 53:54
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11 - Chapter 10 - Chat Moss - Construction of the Railway 22.12.2025 38:12
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12 - Chapter 11 - Robert Stephenson in Colombia, The 'Rocket' 21.12.2025 51:24
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13 - Chapter 12 - The Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway 20.12.2025 30:50
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14 - Chapter 13 - Robert Stephenson Constructs the London and Birmingham Railway 19.12.2025 29:33
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15 - Chapter 14 - Manchester and Leeds and Midland Railways 18.12.2025 39:42
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16 - Chapter 15 - George Stephenson's Coal Mines 17.12.2025 51:09
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17 - Chapter 16 - Robert Stephenson's Career 16.12.2025 36:22
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18 - Chapter 17 - Robert Stephenson's Tubular Bridges at Menai and Conway 15.12.2025 35:41
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19 - Chapter 18 - George Stephenson's Closing Years - Illness and Death 14.12.2025 29:23
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20 - Chapter 19 Robert Stephenson's Illness and Death. Stephenson Characteristics 13.12.2025 47:06
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