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Railway Engineer The Story of George Stephenson by Clara Ingram Judson HardCover
Railway Engineer The Story of George Stephenson by Clara Ingram Judson
Hard Cover Ex-Library Book, pages 7-12 are partially loose
171 pages
Copyright 1941
CONTENTS
The Wylan Wagon-Way1
Carrying Father's Dinner11
Inspecting Dewley Burn21
The New Home31
George Makes a Model41
Clay Engines 51
Nell's Bonnet61
Growing Up73
A Sunday Afternoon at Jolly Close83
The Wedding93
Engine Doctor103
A Traveling Engine 115
Opportunity127
Rival Horses 139
The Rocket149
Fame and Fortune159
What George Stephenson Did169
ABOUT THE BOOK This biography of the man who made the first successful locomotive is as fascinating as the story of Robert Fulton, who made the first really practical steamboat.
George Stevenson's childhood in England is delightfully and sympathetically told; the story of the opening of the first railroad is dramatic. Stevenson was not only the inventor of the Rocket, he invented a safety lamp for miners, and made many useful improvements in early railroading.
Eric Simon, who is an expert in eighteenth-century background, has given the book a delightful eighteenth-century setting. He spent hours studying the Stevenson engines in order to get every detail correct; his pictures are both accurate and decorative.
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