LIVES of the ENGINEERS.

INTRODUCTION.

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHAPTER I. Newcastle and the Great Northern Coal-Field.

CHAPTER II. Wylam and Dewley Burn—George Stephenson’s Early Years.

CHAPTER III. Engineman at Willington Quay and Killingworth.

CHAPTER IV. The Stephensons at Killingworth—Education and Self-Education of Father and Son.

CHAPTER V. Early History of the Locomotive—George Stephenson begins its Improvement.

CHAPTER VI. Invention of the “Geordy” Safety-Lamp.

CHAPTER VII. George Stephenson’s further Improvements in the Locomotive—The Hetton Railway—Robert Stephenson as Viewer’s Apprentice and Student.

CHAPTER VIII. George Stephenson Engineer of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

CHAPTER IX. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway projected.

CHAPTER X. Chat Moss—Construction of the Railway.

CHAPTER XI. Robert Stephenson’s Residence in Colombia, and Return—The Battle of the Locomotive—“The Rocket.”

CHAPTER XII. Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and Extension of the Railway System.

CHAPTER XIII. Robert Stephenson constructs the London and Birmingham Railway.

CHAPTER XIV. Manchester and Leeds, and Midland Railways—Stephenson’s Life at Alton—Visit to Belgium—General Extension of Railways and their Results.

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.

CHAPTER XVI. Robert Stephenson’s Career—The Stephensons and Brunel—East Coast Route to Scotland—Royal Border Bridge, Berwick—High Level Bridge, Newcastle.

CHAPTER XVII. Robert Stephenson’s Tubular Bridges at Menai and Conway.

CHAPTER XVIII. George Stephenson’s Closing Years—Illness and Death.

CHAPTER XIX. Robert Stephenson’s Victoria Bridge, Lower Canada—Illness and Death—Stephenson Characteristics.

INDEX.

NOTES.