Inspection of the formulae above shows that the ( ideally constant ) unit of ephemeris time such as the ephemeris second has been for the whole of the twentieth century very slightly shorter than the corresponding ( but not precisely constant ) unit of mean solar time ( which besides its irregular fluctuations tends gradually to increase ), consistently also with the modern results of Morrison and Stephenson ( see article ΔT ).

The gauge that Stephenson chose for the line was, and this subsequently came to be adopted as the standard gauge for railways, not only in Britain, but also throughout the world.

Stephenson also tended to be more casual in estimating costs and paperwork in general.

Stephenson was also farsighted in realising that the individual lines being built would eventually join together, and would need to have the same gauge.

The museum is located within the Stephenson Memorial Hall ( which also incorporates the Pomegranate Theatre, formerly the Chesterfield Civic Theatre ) and adjacent to Stephensons Place, located roughly mid distance between Stephenson's final home at Tapton House and his resting place in Trinity Church.

The Stephenson Centre, an SEBD Unit of Beaumont Hill School in Darlington, is also named after George Stephenson.

Jaynes's ideas have also influenced writers such as William S. Burroughs, Neal Stephenson, Robert J. Sawyer, Philip K. Dick, and Ken Wilber.

Stephenson has also written non-fiction.

* Pamela Stephenson ( born 1949 ), New Zealand-Australian comedienne, actress and psychologist, also known as Pamela Connolly

The standard gauge ( also named the Stephenson gauge after George Stephenson, ' or normal gauge ) is a widely-used track gauge.

Although The Diamond Age explores the role of technology and personal relationships in child development, its deeper and darker themes also probe the relative values of cultures ( which Stephenson explores in his other novels as well ) and the shortcomings in communication between them.

It is known than Seguin visited Stephenson to observe Locomotion and that he also built two multi-tubular locomotives of his own design for the Saint-Étienne – Lyon railway before Rocket.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Stephenson also designed some fifty buildings in Beeville, including the Bee County Courthouse.

Stephenson also designed the Rialto Theater in Beeville, now used for special occasion, not the running of films, which is located close to the Joe Barnhart Library.

In the early 1840s the village of Yellow Creek was established in southwest Stephenson County, Illinois on a creek also named Yellow Creek.

Zeta-Jones is also parodied in the BBC's The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson by Debra Stephenson reading Beauty and the Beast also alternating between strong Welsh and American accents.

Wyler also argued with Warner Bros. head Jack Warner over the casting of British actor James Stephenson as attorney Howard Joyce.

Stephenson designed his first locomotive in 1814, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway, and named Blücher after the Prussian general Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.

* Rocket, designed by George and Robert Stephenson ; built by Robert Stephenson and Company.

Stephenson designed Rocket for the Rainhill trials, and the specific rules of that contest.

George Stephenson had designed several locomotives before but none as advanced as Rocket.

The bridge had been designed by Robert Stephenson, and he was accused of negligence by a local inquest.

The McMullen County Courthouse was designed by the architect William Charles Stephenson, originally from Buffalo, New York.

The Bee County Courthouse was designed by the architect William Charles Stephenson, originally from Buffalo, New York.

The Bee County Courthouse in Beeville, Texas | Beeville was designed by architect W. C. Stephenson, formerly of Buffalo, New York.

Many of the stately homes, commercial buildings, and schools in and around Beeville, including the Bee County Courthouse, were designed by architect William Charles Stephenson, who came to Beeville in 1908 from Buffalo, New York.

The Rialto Theater, one of the Beeville structures designed by W. C. Stephenson, cost $ 25, 000.

Bouch did the initial survey for the Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway, laid out tramway systems in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and London, and designed the Redheugh viaduct a road bridge across the Tyne at the same height as and not far upstream of Stephenson ’ s High Level Bridge.

However it was eventually found to be awkwardly sited and in 1850, its replacement designed by Robert Stephenson was opened.

The bridge had been designed and built by famed-railway engineer Robert Stephenson for the Chester and Holyhead Railway.

Authorised by Parliament in 1833 and designed by George Stephenson and Joseph Locke, the Grand Junction Railway opened for business on 4 July 1837, running for from Birmingham through Wolverhampton ( via Perry Barr and Bescot ), Stafford, Crewe, and Warrington, then via the existing Warrington and Newton Railway to join the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at a triangular junction at Newton Junction.

Alongside the station, a residential 20-storeys tower block, Stephenson Tower, was built between 1965 and 1966, designed by the City Architect of Birmingham.

Prior to the completion in 1844 of a long tunnel through a spur in the Moelwyn Mountain, the slate trains were worked over the top via inclines ( designed by Robert Stephenson ), the site of which can still be seen but there are no visible remnants.

Raised " by the voluntary contributions of the officers, petty officers, seamen and marines of these united kingdoms ", it was designed in 1821 by William Burn, who was advised by Robert Stephenson after residents of the square expressed concern about the adequacy of the foundations to support a column of such height.

It was designed and engineered by Robert Stephenson.

Stephenson also designed the Royal Border Bridge over the Tweed for the same line.

This distinctive color and pattern combination was taken from the railway, which in turn comes from the Rocket locomotive, designed and built by George Stephenson, winner of an aptitude test in 1829, thus making the contract for the Liverpool – Manchester railway line, from where the model expanded to the rest of the world.

The old Hamilton County Sheriff ’ s Residence and Jail on the southwest corner of the courthouse square in downtown Noblesville is now the home of the Hamilton County Museum of History, but as a working jail it once housed a teenage Charles Manson and D. C. Stephenson, former Grand Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan.

The Stephenson trial, which took place in the nearby Hamilton County courthouse in 1925, broke the power of the Klan in Indiana and drew national attention to Noblesville.

The English railway pioneer George Stephenson spent much of his early engineering career working for the coal mines of County Durham.

The principal streams draining the southern part of the County include Beaver Swamp Brook, Blind Brook, Bronx River, Hutchinson River, Mamaroneck River, Saw Mill River, Sheldrake River, Stephenson Brook and Tibbetts Brook.

They include the Bankhead House, Boshell's Mill, the First United Methodist Church of Jasper, the Gilchrist House, the Jasper Downtown Historic District, the Stephenson House, and Walker County Hospital.

Stephenson County is a county located in the U. S. state of Illinois.

The Freeport Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Stephenson County.

Stephenson County was formed in 1837 out of Jo Daviess and Winnebago Counties.

The County was named for Colonel Benjamin Stephenson, an official of the Illinois Territory.

File: Stephenson County Illinois 1837. png | Stephenson County at the time of its creation in 1837

To the north is Winnebago County, to the northeast Boone, and to the northwest Stephenson.

Cedarville is a village in Stephenson County, Illinois, United States.

Category: Populated places in Stephenson County, Illinois

Dakota is a village in Stephenson County, Illinois.

Category: Populated places in Stephenson County, Illinois

Davis is a village in Stephenson County, Illinois, United States.

Category: Populated places in Stephenson County, Illinois

German Valley is a village in Stephenson County, Illinois.

Category: Populated places in Stephenson County, Illinois