George Stephenson
George Stephenson was an English engineer who pioneered railway locomotion in the early nineteenth century.
He built the first public railway to use steam locomotives and established the standard gauge still used on most of the world's railways.
His son Robert continued his work, and together they are considered founders of the railway age.
Name implying speed
- safety lampEnclosed flame for mines
- locomotiveRailway pulling machine
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
- prototypeFirst functional specimen
mechanism · innovation · breakthrough · design · tinkerer · experimentation · improvement
Railway pulling machine
- tracksMarks showing passage
- trainsLinked rail carriages
- stationFixed stopping point
- platformRaised flat structure
carriage · freight · passenger · gauge · sleepers · signal · junction · terminus
Water-heating vessel
- pistonReciprocating cylinder component
- cylinderCircular-based solid form
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- pressureForce upon contact
valve · throttle · condensation · combustion · firebox · chimney · tender · fuel efficiency
Educated without instructors
- NorthumberlandEnglish county bordering Scotland
- Victorian eraBritain under its longest-reigning queen
- British historyEngland's recorded past
- industrial revolutionRapid economic mechanization period
19th century · industrialist · Great Britain · coal mining · colliery · apprenticeship · illiterate · perseverance
Operated by machinery
- civilMinimally polite
- railway constructionBuilding train routes
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- surveyingMeasuring and charting terrain
bridge building · tunnel · viaduct · gradient · embankment · cutting · gauge · project management
Rocket
Name implying speed
- safety lampEnclosed flame for mines
- locomotiveRailway pulling machine
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
prototype · mechanism · innovation · breakthrough · design · tinkerer · experimentation · improvement
locomotive
Railway pulling machine
platform · carriage · freight · passenger · gauge · sleepers · signal · junction · terminus · railroad
boiler
Water-heating vessel
- pistonReciprocating cylinder component
- cylinderCircular-based solid form
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
pressure · valve · throttle · condensation · combustion · firebox · chimney · tender · fuel efficiency · horsepower
self-taught
Educated without instructors
- NorthumberlandEnglish county bordering Scotland
- Victorian eraBritain under its longest-reigning queen
- British historyEngland's recorded past
industrial revolution · 19th century · industrialist · Great Britain · coal mining · colliery · apprenticeship · illiterate · perseverance · legacy
mechanical
Operated by machinery
- civilMinimally polite
- railway constructionBuilding train routes
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
surveying · bridge building · tunnel · viaduct · gradient · embankment · cutting · gauge · project management
- industrializationfactory, industrial revolution, Industrial Revolution, factories, manufacturing
- British InnovatorsJames Watt, Michael Faraday, Thomas Telford, Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace
- Railroad PioneersCornelius Vanderbilt, railroad baron, Fowler, Drummond, Webb
- steam powersteam, steam power, steam engine, steam engines, steam turbine
- railroadstrains, train, tracks, track, locomotive
- InventorsThomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, Benjamin Franklin, Eli Whitney
George StephensonLuddites
Anti-technology movement members
George StephensonLord Byron
Romantic period English poet
George StephensonThomas Telford