The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson: Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway LocomotiveHarper, 1868 - 501 páginas |
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... father's share in its improvement . Through Mr. Stephenson's instrumentality also , the author was enabled to obtain much valuable information from gentlemen who had been intimately connected with his father and himself in their early ...
... father's share in its improvement . Through Mr. Stephenson's instrumentality also , the author was enabled to obtain much valuable information from gentlemen who had been intimately connected with his father and himself in their early ...
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... father , and continued to furnish corrections and additions for insertion in the successive editions of the book which were called for by the public . After the first two editions had appeared , he induced several gentlemen , well ...
... father , and continued to furnish corrections and additions for insertion in the successive editions of the book which were called for by the public . After the first two editions had appeared , he induced several gentlemen , well ...
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... Father and son were so intimately associated in the early period of their career , that it is difficult , if not impossible , to describe the one apart from the other . The life and achievements of the son were in a great measure the ...
... Father and son were so intimately associated in the early period of their career , that it is difficult , if not impossible , to describe the one apart from the other . The life and achievements of the son were in a great measure the ...
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... Father sends him to Edinburg University . — His Studies there.— Geological Tour in the Highlands ........ ..... Page 198 CHAPTER VIII . GEORGE STEPHENSON ENGINEER OF THE STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY . Failure of the first public ...
... Father sends him to Edinburg University . — His Studies there.— Geological Tour in the Highlands ........ ..... Page 198 CHAPTER VIII . GEORGE STEPHENSON ENGINEER OF THE STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY . Failure of the first public ...
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... ( father of the distinguished General Outram ) , used stone props instead of timber for supporting the ends or joinings of the rails . Thus the use of railroads , in various forms , gradu- ally extended , until they became generally ...
... ( father of the distinguished General Outram ) , used stone props instead of timber for supporting the ends or joinings of the rails . Thus the use of railroads , in various forms , gradu- ally extended , until they became generally ...
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