biography
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| lived:
| (1803–59)
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| biography:
| Civil engineer, born in Willington Quay, Northumberland, NE England, UK, the son of George Stephenson. He studied at Newcastle upon Tyne and Edinburgh, assisted his father in surveying the Stockton and Darlington Railway, worked as a mining engineer in Colombia, then managed his father's locomotive engine-works at Newcastle. In collaboration with his father, he designed the famous engine the Rocket for the Rainhill Trials of 1829. He attained independent fame through his tubular design for the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in Wales (1846–9), and for bridges at Conwy, Newcastle upon Tyne, Montreal (Canada), and elsewhere. He became an MP in 1847. |
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