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INDEX. 



ROMAN WALL, Northumberland, 1. 



ROSCOE, Mr., his farm on Chat Moss, 212, 



220, 222. 



ROYAL BORDI:R BRIDGE, Berwick, 405. 

 RUTTKR'S SCHOOL, Benton, 60, 65. 



S. 



SAFETY-LAMP, Dr. Clanny's, 107 ; Ste- 

 phenson's first lamp, 109 ; second lamp, 

 115; third lamp, 116; Sir H. Davy's 

 paper, 108; his lamp, 117; the safety- 

 lamp controversy, ih. ; the Davy and Ste- 

 phenson testimonials, 121, 123 ; compa- 

 rative merits of the Davy and Geordy 

 lamps, 128. 



SAILING-WAGGONS on tramroads, 73. 



SAINT-FOND on the early waggon-roads, 6. 



SANDARS, JOSEPH, Liverpool, 179, 183, 188, 

 194, 238, 259, 296. 



SANKEY VIADUCT, 233. 



" SANSPARKIL " LOCOMOTIVE, Timothy 

 Hackworth's, 268, 270, 272, 501. 



SCARBOROUGH RAILWAY, 336. 



' SCOTSMAN'S ' articles on railways, 197. 



SEA, violence of, 419. 



SEFTON, Lord, 193, 307. 



SEGUIN, Mr.,C.E., his tubular boiler, 263, 496. 



SHEFFIELD, early railroad at, 7. 



SHIPPING-PLACES, coal, 6. 



SIBTHORPE, Colonel, on railways, 293, 355. 



SIMPLON ROAD, Midland Railway compared 

 with, 333. 



SINKING for coal at Snibston, 297. 



SNIBSTON ESTATE, George Stephenson's pur- 

 chase of, 297. 



SOPWITH, Mr., C.E., 387. 



SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY, 403. 



SPANISH RAILWAY, G. Stephenson's survey 

 of, 391. 



SPECULATIVE MANIAS, 194, 372. 



SPEED, RAILWAY, on Middleton Railway, 

 86 ; Wylam Railway, 90, 92 ; Killingworth 

 Railway, 98, 134, 192; Stockton and Dar- 

 lington Railway, 174; speculations as to 

 possible speed, 197 ; Stephenson's exami- 

 nation before Committee of House of Com- 

 mons on the subject, 203, 205 ; Mr. Har- 

 rison's statement as to superior speed on 

 canals, 213 ; Hon. E. Stanley's views, 218 ; 

 speed of the engines tried at Rainhill, 270 ; 

 of the " Northumbrian," 279 ; G. Stephen- 

 son's views on, 364. 



SPUR-GEAR of locomotive, 97. 



STAFFORD, Marquis of, 217. 



STAITHS, COAL, 11. 



STAMFORD, Earl of, 299. 



STATIONARY-ENGINE power, 141, 158, 165, 

 257. 



STATUES of George Stephenson, 458. 



STEPIIENSON. 



STEAM-BLAST, invention of, 100, 262, 265, 

 489, 497. 



STEAM-ENGINE, study of, 27, 37, 50, 72. 



STEAM-SPRINGS, G. Stephenson's invention of, 

 133, 489. 



STEELE, JOHN, Northumberland mechanic, 88. 



STEPHENSON FAMILY, the, 16, 24, 48 ; " Old 

 Bob," 14, 17, 39,47, 65; Robert (George's 

 brother), 141, 278. 



STEPHENSON, GEORGE, his birth, 14; his 

 parents, 15, 17 ; brothers and sisters, 16 ; 

 boyhood, 18 ; Nell's bonnet, 19 ; employed 

 as herd-boy, 20 ; makes, clay engines, ih. , 

 employed as ploughboy, 21 ; drives the gin- 

 horse, ib. ; employed as assistant fireman, 

 22 ; appointed fireman, 24 ; feats of strength, 

 25 ; made a " man for life," 26 ; appointed 

 engineman, ib. ; study of the ste:mi-engine, 

 27 ; learns to read, 29 ; his schoolmasters, 

 30, 34, 57, 63; his dog, 31; learns to 

 brake an engine, 32 ; duties of brakesman, 

 33 ; falls in love and soles shoes, 34 ; saves 

 his first guinea, 35 ; fight with a pitman, 

 36 ; marries Fanny Henderson, 39 ; studies 

 mechanics, 40 ; heaves ballast, 41 ; clems 

 clocks, 42 ; death of his wife, 43 ; goes to 

 Scotland, 45 ; returns home, 46 ; brakes- 

 man at West Moor, Killingworth, 47 ; 

 drawn for the militia, and contemplates 

 emigration, 48 ; takes a brakeing contract, 

 49 ; cures a pumping engine, 50 ; appointed 

 enginewright of the colliery, 55 ; evenings 

 with John Wigham, 57 ; sobriety, 59 ; 

 education of his son, 59, 62, 144 ; makes 

 shoes, cleans clocks, and cuts out pitmen's 

 clothes, 61 ; his cottage at West Moor, 67 ; 

 the sun-dial, 70 ; study of the locomotive, 

 93; makes his first "travelling-engine," 

 96; the second locomotive, 101; invents 

 and tests his safety-lamps, 108 ; appears 

 before the Newcastle Literary Institute, 

 119; the Stephenson testimonial, 123; 

 superiority of the Geordy lamp, 127; im- 

 proves the machinery in the Killingworth 

 mine, 129 ; further improvements in the Kil- 

 lingworth locomotive, 130 ; improvement 

 of the permanent way, 131 ; experiments 

 on road friction, 134 ; views on fiat gra- 

 dients, 136 ; constructs the Hetton Railway, 

 140 ; visit to Edward Pease, 153 ; surveys 

 and constructs the Stockton and Darling- 

 ton Railway, 157; his second wife, 159; 

 starts a locomotive manufactory, 162 ; 

 supplies the locomotives for the Stockton 

 and Darlington line, 165 ; Stephenson's an- 

 ticipations of railway uses, 167 ; appointed 

 engineer of Liverpool and Manchester Rail- 

 way, 189 ; his views of railway speed, 

 198 ; examined before Committee of the 

 House of Commons, 201 ; the bill rejected, 

 and Stephenson's vexation, 214 ; constructs 



