INDEX. 



511 



STEPIIENSON. 



the railway across Chat Moss, 219 ; his 

 great labours, 235 ; life at home, 238 ; 

 urges the employment of the locomotive on 

 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 

 256 ; the " Rocket " constructed, 264 ; fair- 

 weather friends. -J74-: organizes the work- 

 ing of the railway, 277 ; public opening of 

 Liverpool and Manchester line, 278 ; the 

 Stephenson workmen, 285 ; appointed engi- 

 neer of Grand Junction, 292 ; purchases 

 Suibston Colliery, 297 ; appointed joint 

 engineer of London and Birmingham Rail- 

 way, 301 ; scene with Lord Wharnclifte in 

 Committee of the Lords on Manchester and 

 Leeds bill, 327 ; engineer of Manchester and 

 Leeds Railway, 329 ; of Midland Railway, 

 331 ; of York and North Midland Rail- 

 way, 335 ; life at Alton Grange, 339 ; visit 

 to Belgium and interviews with King Leo- 

 pold, 344- ; his assistants, 346 ; stage-coach 

 accident, 353; leases Claycross Colliery, 

 358 ; limeworks at Ambergate, 359 ; resi- 

 dence at Tapton House, 356, 358 ; appear- 

 ance at Mechanics' Institutes, 361 ; opi- 

 nions of railway speed, 364 ; views as 

 to atmospheric system of working, 370 ; 

 opposes the railway mania, 375 ; again 

 visits Belgium, 386 ; visit to Spain, 389 ; 

 retires from the profession of engineering, 

 394 ; his views on share speculation, 399 ; 

 Newcastle and Berwick Railway, 400 ; in- 

 terview with Lord Howick, 403 ; consulted 

 as to Chester and Holyhead Railway, 416 ; 

 life at Tapton, 442 ; habits, conversation, 

 <;., 445 ; theory of coal formation, 452, 

 475 ; meeting with Emerson, 455 ; illness 

 and death, 456 ; characteristics, 465. 

 STEPHENSON, ROBERT, his birth, 43 ; death 

 of his mother, 45 ; his father's care for his 

 education, 59; is put to Rutter's school, 

 Benton, 60 ; sent to Bruce "s school, New- 

 castle, 62 ; studies in the Literary and 

 Philosophical Institute, 63 ; evenings with 

 his father, 64 ; his boyish tricks, 65 ; re- 

 peats Franklin's lightning experiment, 66 ; 

 his father's assistant, 59, 68 ; gives lessons 

 to the pitmen's sons, 69 ; calculates the 

 latitude for a sun-dial at Killingworth, 70 ; 

 his recollections of the trial of the first 

 safety-lamp, 110; assists his father in his 

 experiments on fire-damp, 113; writes a 

 letter to the newspapers for his father, 122 ; 

 apprenticed as a coal -viewer, 142 ; sent to 

 college at Edinburgh, 145 ; falls in love, 

 147 ; study of geology, ib. ; tour in the 

 Highlands, 148 ; assists in survey of Stock- 

 ton and Darlington Railway, 1 57 ; his views 

 on iron rails, 164 ; assists in surveying the 

 Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 188 ; 

 leaves England for Colombia, 243 ; mule- 

 journey to Bogota, 243 ; residence at Ma- 



SYLVESTER. 



riquita, 245 ; his cottage at Santa Anna, 

 247 ; resigns his situation as mining engi- 

 neer, 249; rencontre with Trevithick at 

 Cartagena, 251 ; shipwreck, 252; return 

 to Newcastle, 253 ; pamphlet on the loco- 

 motive engine, 259 ; discussions with his 

 father as to the locomotive, 261 ; constructs 

 the " Rocket," 264 ; wins the prize, '273 ; 

 improvements in the locomotive, 276, 284 ; 

 appointed engineer of Leicester and Swan- 

 nington Railway, 295; his first tunnel, 

 296 ; finds coal at Snibston, 296 ; ap- 

 pointed joint engineer of London and Bir- 

 mingham Railway, 302 ; interview with 

 Sir Astley Cooper, 305; construction of 

 the works, 311; overcomes the difficulties 

 of the Kilsby Tunnel, 315 ; evidence on 

 steep gradients and the locomotive, 368; 

 report on the atmospheric system of work- 

 ing, 372; letter to Sir Robert Peel on 

 " undulating railways," 379 ; views as to 

 legislative bungling on railways, 380 ; views 

 on mechanical training of the engineer, 

 395 ; his extensive employment, 396 ; the 

 competitor of Brunei, 397 ; his cautious- 

 ness, 399 ; engineer of Newcastle and Ber- 

 wick Railway, 400 ; engineer of Royal Border 

 Bridge, Berwick, 405 ; engineer of High 

 Level Bridge, Newcastle, 409 ; engineer of 

 Chester and Holyhead Railway, 417 ; con- 

 structs the Britannia and Conway Tubular 

 Bridges, 420 ; his great anxieties, 435 ; 

 letter to Edward Pease, 438 ; succeeds to 

 his father's wealth, and arranges to retire 

 from business, 460 ; designs tubular bridges 

 for Canada and Egypt, ^-61 ; acts as arbi- 

 trator on railway matters, 462 ; assists in 

 launching the * Great Eastern,' ib. ; Mem- 

 ber of Parliament, 463 ; foreign honours, 

 ib. ; death, 464; character, 477 ; narrative 

 of his father's inventions, &c., 485 ; account 

 of the invention of the steam-blast, 501. 



STOCK EXCHANGE and railway speculation, 

 373. 



STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY, 

 projected, 149 ; surveyed by Mr. Overton, 

 151 ; promoted by Edward Pease, ib. ; act 

 passed, 152; re-surveyed byG. Stephenson, 

 157 ; opening of the railway, 167 ; the coal 

 traffic, 169 ; the first passenger coach, 170 ; 

 coaching companies, 172; increase of the 

 traffic, 176 ; town of Middlesborough, 

 177. 



STRATHMORE, Earl of, 55. 



STRENGTH, feats of, 25, 37, 54. 



SUMMERS AND OGLE'S steam carriage, 263. 



SUN-DIAL at Killing worth, 70, 361. 



SWANWICK, FREDERICK, C.E., 236, 239, 

 454. 



SYLVESTER, Mr., engineer, Liverpool, 192, 

 492. 



