Robert Stephenson: Railway Engineer - Hardcover

Addyman, John; Haworth, Victoria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1873513607 ISBN 13: 9781873513606

Publisher: North Eastern Railway Association, 1998

Synopsis

At the time of his death, Robert Stephenson was considered a far greater engineer than his father, George, or any of his contemporaries. His outstanding accomplishments demanded that he should be buried in Westminster Abbey. Over the last 150 years, his reputation has suffered by much of his credit being ignored or transferred to his father, George Stephenson. Samuel Smiles in writing his "Lives of the Engineers" is guilty of starting the erosion of Robert's image. How many hundreds of books have followed Smiles and credited the design and building of 'Rocket' to George Stephenson rather than to Robert? Robert was entirely responsible for it - George was far too busy building the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at the time. This book describes Robert Stephenson's main achievements and his significant influence in the design and building of locomotives and railways for Britain and other countries. His influence on the development of the locomotive from the crude products of the second decade of the nineteenth century to the capable machines of the 1840s is fully covered in Chapter 3. The difficult and unprecedented bridges over the Tyne, Menai, Nile and St.

Lawrence are described in Chapters 5 to 8.

Edition details

• Publisher: North Eastern Railway Association
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1873513607
• ISBN 13: 9781873513606
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176