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The Life of George Stephenson [Paperback]

Samuel Smiles (Author)
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Publication Date: 10 Aug 2001
Seminal biography of George Stephenson (1781-1848), English engineer and principal inventor of the railroad locomotive. Stephenson was closely identified with the origin, progress, and eventual establishment of railways as a sound practical basis. This is literally the story of the nuts and bolts of steam locomotives -- an amazing description of the development of railroads, both mechanical developments and lines, especially in Great Britain and her colonies.

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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: University Press of the Pacific (10 Aug 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0898755050
  • ISBN-13: 978-0898755053
  • Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 1.4 x 20.3 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,085,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was a zealous advocate of material progress based on individual enterprise and free trade. From 1845 to 1866 he was engaged in railway administration, and in 1857 he published a life of the inventor and founder of the railways, George Stephenson. Best known for his didactic work Self-Help (1859), which, with its successors, Character (1871), Thrift (1875), and Duty (1880), enshrined the basic Victorian values associated with the "gospel of work."

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5.0 out of 5 stars True greatness 1 Feb 2004
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Stephenson was known as the 'Father of British Railways'. He did not know how to read until he was 18 years old!
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