Stephenson's Rocket is an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for and won the Rainhill Trials of the Liverpool and Manchester...
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Rainhill trials (redirect from Rocket 150)
length of level track at Rainhill, in Lancashire (now Merseyside). Stephenson's Rocket was the only locomotive to complete the trials, and was declared...
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each man. Stephenson's estimates and organising ability proved inferior to those of Locke and the board's dissatisfaction led to Stephenson's resignation...
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Hackworth's Sans Pareil and Stephenson's Rocket—it ultimately lost the competition in the trials. Stephenson's Rocket eventually won the trials, maintaining...
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the Audience.: 152 Stephenson made a comedy-sketch television pilot called Stephenson's Rocket, which was not taken up. Stephenson acted in Mel Brooks'...
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cylinder casting includes other features such as (in the case of Stephenson's Rocket) valve ports and mounting feet. The last big American locomotives...
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George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, the winner of the Rainhill Trials and the £500 prize money. Instead of the fire tube boiler of Rocket, Sans Pareil had...
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astronomer Gene Stephenson, American college baseball coach George Stephenson (1781–1848), British mechanical engineer who created Stephenson's Rocket George Robert...
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George Stephenson's Birthplace is the 18th-century stone cottage home of rail pioneer George Stephenson. Located along the north bank of the River Tyne...
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design Stephenson's Rocket, also known as The Rocket, an early steam locomotive (1829) Oldsmobile V8 engine, also called the Rocket Toronto Rocket, a series...
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Railway Museum. In 1929 a replica Rocket was commissioned from Robert Stephenson and Company by Henry Ford, using Stephenson's original construction techniques...
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Middleton Railway between Middleton and Leeds, England and it predated Stephenson's Rocket by 17 years. It was the first to have two cylinders. It was named...
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(2011) Welcome to Scullyville (2011) Rock'N'Roll Jamboree (2011) (as Stephenson's Rockets) Your Kinda People, My Kinda Folk (2011) (as Martin & Shippy) Bolivia...
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occurred in 1829. Stourbridge Lion's first run, recreated ca. 1916 Stephenson’s Rocket, contemporary drawing Carrollton Viaduct, in 1971 August 8 – The...
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rails were re-spaced to Stephenson's 4' 8 1/2¨ gauge. The line was worked by steam, and the engine used was Stephenson's Rocket, bought for £300. There...
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oldest steamable locomotive (in the Museum of Liverpool since 2007) Stephenson's Rocket – from 25 September 2018 to 8 September 2019 Until 2018, demonstration...
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Archived from the original on 25 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015. "Stephenson's 'Rocket' locomotive, 1829". The Science Museum. Archived from the original...
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District. The Rainhill Trials of 1829 resulted in the selection of Stephenson's Rocket as the world's first modern steam locomotive. Rainhill has been recorded...
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cab may be at one or both ends. The earliest locomotives, such as Stephenson's Rocket, had no cab; the locomotive controls and a footplate for the crew...
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popularized by Stephenson's (1992) science-fiction novel Snow Crash. Youngquist, Paul (2012). "Cyberpunk, War, and Money: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon"...
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Hornby Railways (section Rocket)
of the 1980 Rocket 150 celebrations, Hornby released a live steam-powered 3+1⁄2 in (89 mm) gauge locomotive, a model of Stephenson's Rocket A major goal...
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supporters of the project including the Yorkshire Post, who said, "Stephenson's rocket will fire up HS2 at last". In November 2021, the Integrated Rail...
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kilometers per hour (8 mph). The success of this locomotive, and Stephenson's Rocket in 1829, convinced many of the value in steam locomotives, and within...
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frequent use in the century-and-a-half following the competition won by Stephenson's Rocket, in innumerable newspaper articles as well as in various novels....
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first wheel turns on October 1, 1829, just a few days before George Stephenson's rocket, with whom Marc Seguin maintained continuous communication. It was...
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display at the Science Museum in London, England. A second example is Stephenson's Rocket where a replica was built in 1979, following the original design...
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Georgia Stephenson's Rocket, an early steam locomotive Stephenson Scholarship Hall, University of Kansas, in the United States Stephenson's Catalogue...
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Stephenson Stockton and Darlington Railway Isambard Kingdom Brunel Stephenson's Rocket Charlotte Dundas James Watt George Washington The Industrial Revolution...
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Invicta (locomotive) (category Robert Stephenson and Company locomotives)
designed by Robert Stephenson, in consultation with his father George Stephenson. Invicta shares several features with Stephenson's Rocket, which was completed...
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