George stephenson biography book
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Life of Martyr Stephenson (Centenary Edition), vulgar Samuel Smiles, LL.D, Lavatory Murray, [ebook]
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George and Robert Stephenson
A Passion for Success
David Ross,
From poverty to immense wealth, from humble beginnings to international celebrity, George and Robert Stephenson’s was an extraordinary joint career. Together they overshadow all other engineers, except perhaps Robert’s friend Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for one vital reason: they were winners. For them it was not enough to follow the progress made by others. They had to be the best. Colossal in confidence, ability, energy and ambition, George Stephenson was also a man of huge rages and jealousies, determined to create his own legend. Brought up from infancy by his father, Robert was a very different person. Driven by the need to be the super-successful son his father wanted, he struggled with self-distrust and morbid depression. More than once his career and reputation teetered on the edge of disaster. But, by being flawed, he emerges as a far more interesting and sympathetic figure than the conventional picture of the ‘eminent engineer.’ David Ross’s biography of George and Robert Stephenson sheds much new light on this remarkable father and son. Authoritative and containing many new discoveries, it is a highly readable account of how these two men set the modern industrial world in motion.
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George Stephenson: A Life From Beginning to End
Stephenson seems to be the most unlikely figure to hero any success story as he grew up and rose through the ranks of the mine, like tens of thousands both before and after him. His formal education is practically nonexistent. Not until , at the age of eighteen, did he begin to learn to read and write.
Richard Trevithick invented the first locomotive steam engine in but it was not viable for commercial use. On July 25, , Stephenson unveiled the “Blucher”, his first full-sized prototype. He continued to tweak his design and eventually replaced a gear with a rod system and designed a blast pipe to reduce noise and increase boiler pressure.
George Stephenson is the epitome