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Stephenson

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Ste·phen·son  (stvn-sn), George 1781-1848.
British railway pioneer who built a practical steam locomotive (1814) and the first passenger railway (1825). His son Robert (1803-1859) built railroads, locomotives, and bridges.
Stephenson [ˈstiːvənsən]
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1. (Biographies / Stephenson, George (1781-1848) M, British, TECHNOLOGY: engineer, TECHNOLOGY: railway pioneer) George. 1781-1848, British inventor of the first successful steam locomotive (1814); constructed the first railway line to carry passengers, the Stockton and Darlington Railway (opened 1825)
2. (Biographies / Stephenson, Robert (1803-1859) M, British, TECHNOLOGY: engineer) his son, Robert. 1803-59, British engineer, noted for his construction of railway bridges and viaducts, esp the tubular bridge over the Menai Strait
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One was the British consul at Suez, who, despite the prophecies of the English Government, and the unfavourable predictions of Stephenson, was in the habit of seeing, from his office window, English ships daily passing to and fro on the great canal, by which the old roundabout route from England to India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged by at least a half.
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