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George Stephenson   /dʒɔrdʒ stˈivənsən/   Listen
George Stephenson

noun
1.
English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848).  Synonym: Stephenson.






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... November 10, 1909—a day that will surely have its place in history beside that other day, eighty-five years ago, when George Stephenson drove the first railway locomotive between Stockton and Darlington. In the great square of the Brennan torpedo factory at Gillingham, where the fighting-tops of battleships in the adjacent dockyard poise above the stone coping of the wall, there was a track laid down in a circle of a ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer



Words linked to "George Stephenson" :   businessman, Stephenson, man of affairs



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