Lives of the Engineers: George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles

Lives of the Engineers: George and Robert Stephenson

Samuel Smiles with Andy Minter (Narrator)

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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 it into an efficient machine not very different to those which ran until fifty or so year...

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