A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 208
3 engines continued in use at the Wylam collieries manyyears. The second engine was removed in 1862, and is nowpreserved at the South Kensington Museum, London. George Stephenson, to whom is generally accordedthe honor of having first made the locomotive-engine a suc-cess, built his first engine at… … George Stephenson. as has been seen, to attract considerable attention. Ste-phenson, however, combined, in a very fortunate degree,the advantages of gi-eat natural inventive talent and anexcellent mechanical training, reminding one strongly ofJames Watt. Indeed, Stephensons portrait bears…
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