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AN account is given in this book of the more important events which marked the career of George Stephenson. A few pages are devoted to a brief account of his childhood and early struggles. Then comes an account of the invention of the “Geordie” safety lamp for use in mines, which was brought out simultaneously with Sir Humphry Davy's famous lamp. The remainder of the book records in detail the more interesting points in the history of the great engineer from the time when he built the Stockton and Darlington Railway onward, and it is amusing to read of the struggles he had from time to time to secure the requisite Parliamentary authority for building railways on which traffic would travel at ten miles an hour ! Nine excellent full-page illustrations showing some features of British railways in Stephenson's time make an agreeable addition to an interesting book.
George Stephenson.
Ruth
Maxwell
By. (Heroes of All Time.) Pp. 192. (London: George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd., 1920.) Price 3s. 6d. net.
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George Stephenson . Nature 106, 404 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106404c0
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