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Samuel Smiles. Lives of the Engineers
Lives of the Engineers
Table of Contents
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
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Samuel Smiles
The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson
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After he had driven the gin for some time at Dewley and Black Callerton, he was taken on as an assistant to his father in firing the engine at Dewley. This was a step of promotion which he had anxiously desired, his only fear being lest he should be found too young for the work. Indeed, he used afterwards to relate how he was wont to hide himself when the owner of the colliery went round, in case he should be thought too little a boy to earn the wages paid him. Since he had modelled his clay engines in the bog, his young ambition was to be an engineman; and to be an assistant fireman was the first step towards this position. Great therefore was his joy when, at about fourteen years of age, he was appointed assistant-fireman, at the wage of a shilling a day.
But the coal at Dewley Burn being at length worked out, the pit was ordered to be “laid in,” and old Robert and his family were again under the necessity of shifting their home; for, to use the common phrase, they must “follow the wark.” They removed accordingly to a place called Jolly’s Close, a few miles to the south, close behind the village of Newburn, where another coal-mine belonging to the Duke of Northumberland, called “the Duke’s Winnin,” had recently been opened out.
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