English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
(9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English
civil engineer
and
mechanical engineer
who built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use
steam locomotives
, the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway
which
opened in 1830
. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", the
Victorians
considered him a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement, with
self-help
advocate
Samuel Smiles
particularly praising his achievements. His
rail gauge
of , sometimes called "Stephenson gauge", is the
standard gauge
by name and by convention for most of the world's railways.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License