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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
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he accordinglyinvented the steam blast, which enabled himto double his rate of speed, and in 1815 he tookout a patent for, and constructed an engine,which up to the present day (under certainmodifications and improvements) has, likeWatts steam-engine, continued as a model inthe construction of locomotives. In this sameyear he devised a safety-lamp, the Geordie, forminers, which was produced prior to and alto-gether independent of the better known inven-tion of Sir Humphry Davy, and is still em-ployed in preference to the latter in some partsof Northumberland. The following year hetook out a patent for an improved form of railand chair. In i8ig he was employed to con-struct a railway for the proprietors of the Het-ton colliery, and in 1822 the Stockton and Dar-lington, line for Pease, its leading promoter,who appointed him resident engineer, with anannual salary of £300. The line was opened 27Sept. 1825, the engine being driven by Stephen-son himself, and drawing 38 carriages, with a
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C.EORCK SI KlIlKNSON.FIRSr Tl) APIl.Y TllK I.OCOMOIIVK SI r.AM KXlilNK TO RAILWAYS I-OR PASSENC.EH TRAIFIC. STEPHENSON —STEPHENSONS DEPOT total weight of about 90 tons, at a rate of from12 to 16 miles an hour. This was the firststeam railway in Great Britain on which pas-sengers were conveyed as well as goods. Atthis period a copartnership was formed betweenPease and Stephenson for the establishment ofa locomotive manufactory at Newcastle, whichwas long the only work of the kind in thekingdom, and rapidly increased in e.xtent andimportance. The scheme of constructing a rail-way between Liverpool and Manchester hadbeen set on foot in 1824, but the opposition toit, both in and out of Parliament, was sostrong that it had to be temporarily abandoned.Ilic bill was passed, however, on a second ap-plication, and the work commenced in 1826.After overcoming many difficulties, one of thegreatest being the carrying of the line overChatmoss, the railway was opened on 15 Sept.i8j;o. The results

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