Robert Stephenson

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Robert Stephenson (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father. Robert Stephenson became an apprentice under mining engineer Nicholas Wood after completing his education in 1819. In 1821, he and his father surveyed the Bishop Auckland area to help Edward Pease build a railway that would transport coal from the area to Darlington and Stockton-on-Tees. In 1823, the Stephensons and Pease founded Robert Stephenson and Company to manufacture locomotives; the company designed such locomotives as the Lancashire Witch in 1828 and the John Bull in 1831, the latter of which became the first steam locomotive to run in New Jersey. Throughout the 1830s Robert oversaw the construction of several railways, including the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, the Bolton & Leigh railway, the Warrington & Newton Railway and the Leicester and Swannington Railway...

Read on Wikipedia · Image Maull & Polybank, 55 Gracechurch Street, London This was a partnership of Henry Maull (1829–1914) and an unknown partner George Henry Polyblank or Polybank.(See London Gazette, 1865 p 2059 and Maull…, Public domain