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LibriVox recording of Lives of the Engineers (George and Robert Stephenson), by Samuel Smiles. Read by Andy Minter. George Stephenson did not invent the steam engine, that was due to Newcomen and later to James Watt. He did not invent the steam locomotive, that was due to a number of people including Cugnot, Trevithick and others. He did not invent the Railway. Railways or tramways had been in use for two hundred years before Stephenson. The reason why Stephenson was known as ‘The father of the steam locomotive’ was that he took a primitive, unreliable and wholly uneconomic device and turning
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Lives of the Engineers (George and Robert Stephenson) by Samuel Smiles
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