Stephenson's most notable role for Hanna-Barbera was as the voice of Mr. Slate, Fred Flintstone's hard-edged boss at Slate Rock and Gravel Company, from the original The Flintstones series up through to the present, although he provided the voices of the majority of the show's guest characters, making him one of the main cast members of the show.

The two designs differed in that, the Davy's lamp was surrounded by a screen of gauze, whereas Stephenson's lamp was contained in a glass cylinder.

It was constructed in the colliery workshop behind Stephenson's home, Dial Cottage, on Great Lime Road.

Stephenson's entry was Rocket, and its performance in winning the contest made it famous.

The next ten years were the busiest of Stephenson's life, as he was besieged with requests from railway promoters.

Despite Stephenson's losing some routes to competitors due to his caution, he was offered more work than he could cope with, and was unable to accept offers for additional work.

Stephenson's first novel, The Big U, published in 1984, was a satirical take on life at American Megaversity, a vast, bland and alienating research university beset by chaotic riots.

Stephenson's next solo novel, published in 1995, was The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, which dealt with a future with extensive nanotechnology and dynabooks.

With Neal Stephenson's permission, Garrett Birkel responded to In the Beginning ... was the Command Line in 2004, bringing it up to date and critically discussing Stephenson's argument.

* In Neal Stephenson's three-volume The Baroque Cycle, 17th century alchemists like Isaac Newton believe that Solomon created a kind of " heavier " gold with mystical properties and that it was cached in the Solomon Islands where it was accidentally discovered by the crew of a wayward Spanish galleon.

Stephenson's Stockton and Darlington railway ( S & DR ) was built primarily to transport coal from several mines near Shildon to the port at Stockton-on-Tees.

In a conversation with Miranda, one character tells her that the nation-states of the world collapsed when electronic communications started using an untraceable relay system that made it impossible to enforce taxes on online transactions ( which was later used as a plot element in another of Stephenson's works, the 1999 novel Cryptonomicon ).

Stephenson's Rocket was an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement, built in 1829 at the Forth Street Works of Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Stephenson's most visible decision was to use a single pair of driving wheels, with a small carrying axle behind.

In June 2012, it was announced that Cornish had been signed as director of a future film adaptation of Neal Stephenson's classic 1992 novel, Snow Crash for Paramount Studios.

There was thus a division in the L & MR board between those who supported Stephenson's " loco-motive " and those who favoured cable haulage, the latter supported by the opinion of the engineer, John Rastrick.

Neal Stephenson's novel Anathem was partly inspired by his involvement with the project, to which he contributed three pages of sketches and notes.

The decline was hastened by Stephenson's talking to the press in 1926-1927 about government officials who had accepted payments and bribes from the Klan ; the organization lost its reputation as law-abiding and upholding morality.

Also in 2001, Pamela Stephenson's first biography of her husband, Billy, was published.

One of Stephenson's few failures was his design of the Dee bridge, which collapsed under a train.

Robert Stephenson's advice on railway matters was sought after in various countries.

He is best known today, however, as the world's first widely reported railway casualty as he was run over by George Stephenson's locomotive engine Rocket.

Tynesiders may have been given this name, a local diminutive of the name " George ", because their miners used George Stephenson's safety lamp ( called a " Georgie lamp ") to prevent firedamp explosions, rather than the Davy lamp used elsewhere.

The term was first used in 1858 in cricket to describe HH Stephenson's feat of taking three wickets in three balls.

When the first public railways developed, George Stephenson's skilful innovation meant that his railways were dominant and the gauge he used was therefore the most widespread.

* A similar idea was used in Neal Stephenson's 1984 university satire The Big U. In the novel several live action role playing gamers head into their University's sewers to play a game called " Sewers and Serpents ".

Stephenson's design used glass to surround the flame, which cut out less of the light than Davy's, where the gauze surrounded it.

His Suspension Bridge used only one-sixth the material of Stephenson's Brittania Bridge, but was twice as long and had a capacity that exceeded the tubular bridge.

Many early steam locomotives were initially used on this line including Stephenson's Rocket, which won the Rainhill Trials in 1829 ( see List of Liverpool and Manchester Railway locomotives ).

Reference is sometimes made to the " gauge " of ruts in stone roadways at ancient sites such as Pompeii, and these are often asserted to be about the same as Stephenson's gauge.

The Independent places emphasis on the comparisons between the story that evolves in Quicksilver and Stephenson's earlier novel Cryptonomicon, with the former " shaping up to be a far more impressive literary endeavour than most so-called ' serious ' fiction.

The most notable of the other tubular bridges were Stephenson's Conwy railway bridge between Llandudno Junction and Conwy, and Victoria Bridge across the Saint Lawrence River at Montreal.

The most famous 0-2-2 is Stephenson's Rocket of 1829.

* The Megaversity Association for Reenactments and Simulations, in Neal Stephenson's novel The Big U

Other popular fictional works that use the concept of virtual reality include William Gibson's Neuromancer which defined the concept of cyberspace, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, in which he made extensive reference to the term avatar to describe one's representation in a virtual world, and Rudy Rucker's The Hacker and the Ants, in which programmer Jerzy Rugby uses VR for robot design and testing.

Pinafore in 1878, and Alfred Cellier and B. C. Stephenson's 1886 hit, Dorothy, ran for 931 performances.

At length George Hudson took control of the NMR and adopted Robert Stephenson's suggestion that the best outcome would be for the three lines to merge.

While a capable locomotive for the day, its technology was somewhat antiquated compared to George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, the winner of the Rainhill Trials and the £ 500 prize money.

William Huskisson, Member of Parliament for Liverpool and an early supporter of railways, was killed at Parkside near Newton when he was run down by Stephenson's Rocket locomotive on the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

The critic finds a parallel between Stephenson's approach and a passage from the book describing an effort to put " all human knowledge ... in a vast Encyclopedia that will be a sort of machine, not only for finding old knowledge but for making new ".

However Stephenson ’ s administrative inefficiency soon became apparent, whereas Locke estimated the costs for his section of the line so meticulously and speedily, that he had all of the contracts signed for his section of the line before a single one had been signed for Stephenson's section.

Stephenson's workers ' houses were of high quality for their time, having four rooms compared to the normal two, and a school was provided.

The Cobweb is a 1996 novel written by Neal Stephenson with J. Frederick George, a pseudonym for Stephenson's uncle, historian George Jewsbury.

The bridge was built for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway, and together with Stephenson's Royal Border Bridge at Berwick upon Tweed, completed the line of a London-Edinburgh railway nowadays known as the East Coast Main Line.

In 1825 the Act of Parliament was obtained for a " railway or tramroad " to be propelled by " stationary or locomotive steam engines ," which was remarkably prescient, considering few people considered steam locomotives to be feasible, and George Stephenson's Stockton and Darlington Railway was barely open in far-away County Durham.

A Trial of the Pyx is called for in Neal Stephenson's fiction novel The System of the World.

The first two locomotives were 0-4-0 Tayleur and Stephenson for the North Union Railway, similar to Stephenson's " Planet " design.

Stephenson's railway soldiered on for many years.

After a sustained search across the country, in 1959 the Society's attention was drawn to the then derelict limestone quarry at Crich in Derbyshire, from which members of the Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society were recovering track from Stephenson's mineral railway for their pioneering preservation project in Wales.

* August 15-Robert Stephenson's High Level Bridge for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway at Newcastle upon Tyne, England is opened permanently for rail traffic.

* August 29 – Robert Stephenson's Royal Border Bridge for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway at Berwick-upon-Tweed, England is opened by Queen Victoria.

Porthmadog grew rapidly, but the scheme for Porthdinllaen Harbour foundered, superseded by Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits, which opened up the route to Ireland via Holyhead.