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.
But when
Stephenson's Rocket ran twenty-nine miles an hour, and Morse's telegraph clicked its signals from Washington to Baltimore, and Bell's telephone flashed the vibrations of speech between Boston and Salem, a new era began.
Stephenson, to win a fortune, invented the steam-engine; and Shakespeare wrote his plays in order to keep a comfortable home for Mrs.
Stephenson found (Wilson's Voyage round Scotland, vol.
With the spirit of prophecy upon me, I could look into the future and see her erect statues and monuments to her unspeakable Georges and other royal and noble clothes-horses, and leave unhonored the creators of this world -- after God -- Gutenburg, Watt, Arkwright, Whitney, Morse,
Stephenson, Bell.
On this day 205 years ago, British inventor George
Stephenson unveiled his design for the first ever functional steam-powered locomotive.
HAROLD William
Stephenson was born on July 18, 1920, in Haverton Hill.
The
Stephenson Avenue extension project has reached a significant milestone with a Statement of Intent between the State Government and City of Stirling signed to progress the first phase of the project.
Woodruff Sawyer announced that Seth Pfalzer and Erin
Stephenson have taken new leadership roles in the Northern California management liability practice.
FOR three years vile serial beast George
Stephenson hoodwinked the authorities into believing he was a mental and physical wreck in a series of "Oscar-winning performances" in a bid to get away with the most horrific sexual abuse.
But the truth was that the apparently frail wheelchairusing 60-year-old pervert was a malingerer and a conman who was putting on an act with the help of wife, Wendy
Stephenson - who eventually told police about the sham.
For Lance
Stephenson, making the NBA playoffs was something he wanted and was the reason why he signed up with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Stephenson - English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848)