At 17, Stephenson became an engineman at Water Row Pit, Newburn.

In 1811 the pumping engine at High Pit, Killingworth was not working properly and Stephenson offered to fix it.

Altogether, Stephenson is said to have produced 16 locomotives at Killingworth, although it has never proved possible to produce a convincing list of all 16.

Together with William Losh, Stephenson improved the design of cast iron rails to reduce breakage ; these were briefly made by Losh, Wilson and Bell at their Walker ironworks.

Statue of George Stephenson at the National Railway Museum, York

Stephenson had ascertained by experiments at Killingworth that half of the power of the locomotive was consumed by a gradient as little as 1 in 260.

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.

As a tribute to his life and works, a bronze statue of Stephenson was unveiled at Chesterfield railway station ( which is overlooked by Tapton House, where Stephenson spent the last ten years of his life ) on 28 October 2005, marking the completion of improvements to the station.

Trevithick built a series of locomotives after the Penydarren experiment, including one which ran at a colliery in Tyneside in northern England, where it was seen by the young George Stephenson.

Stephenson studied at Boston University, first specializing in physics, then switching to geography after he found that it would allow him to spend more time on the university mainframe.

The Big U went out of print until 2001, when Stephenson allowed it to be republished after realizing that this book that he considered inferior to his others was being sold at inflated prices for used copies because of its scarcity and collectors ' value.

Stephenson at this time would later be described by Mike Godwin as " a slight, unassuming grad-student type whose soft-spoken demeanor gave no obvious indication that he had written the manic apotheosis of cyberpunk science fiction.

* " Science Fiction as a Literary Genre " – lecture by Stephenson at Gresham College, London in May 2008

* Neal Stephenson at authors @ Google, September 12, 2008.

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.

After four years at the University of Kansas residing at Stephenson Scholarship hall, James joined the Army in 1971.

Hadlee, and his immediate successor at Nottinghamshire Franklyn Stephenson, are the only two players to achieve this feat in English county cricket since the number of county games per season was reduced in 1969.

Stephenson took this precaution because of a recent fire on the Great Western Railway at Uxbridge, London, where Isambard Kingdom Brunel's bridge caught fire and collapsed.

The Opera web browser was created in 1994 by Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner and Geir Ivarsøy during their tenure at Telenor.

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

In 1821, a wagonway was proposed that would connect the mines at West Durham, Darlington and the River Tees at Stockton, George Stephenson successfully argued that horse drawn wagonways were obsolete and a steam powered railway could carry 50 times as much coal.

In this book, Stephenson returns with a thriller set in the present with a plot that involves a medley of game developers, Chinese cyber-criminals, Russian mafia, and other stranger inhabitants of the new global village.

In the Beginning ... Was the Command Line is an essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form ( November 1999, ISBN 0-380-81593-1 ).

Stephenson attempts to establish The Diamond Age as a " postcyberpunk " book by killing this character early on, while acknowledging the influence of the cyberpunk genre.

As he did in Cryptonomicon, Stephenson highlights the importance of networks and codes, which in Quicksilver occur against a " backdrop of staggering diversity and detail ", writes Mark Sanderson in his review of the book for the Daily Telegraph.

* The Metaweb was once an extensive Quicksilver wiki, including many pages written by Stephenson, about the historical and fictional persons and events of this book.

In the publication of the two novels as a single volume, Stephenson chose to publish the volume as alternating sections between Bonanza and The Juncto, book 4 and 5 respectively.

* Dmitri " Raven " Ravinoff, a character in the Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

* Long John Silver in the book Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stephenson, was missing a leg, but did not have a peg leg.

* A fictional encryption program from the book Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson

* Macdonald, Bill, The True Intrepid: Sir William Stephenson and the Unknown Agents, ( Raincoast, 2001 )-ISBN 1-55192-418-8 This book contains interviews with several Canadian employees of BSC in New York.

* The System of the World ( novel ), a 2005 book by Neal Stephenson

Rumor has it that it was nicknamed ' Bletchley-in-the-Tropics ' after the English country house where the Enigma code was broken ( Sir William Stephenson, the Canadian-born British spymaster who was the subject of the book and film A Man Called Intrepid resided for a time at the Princess, following the war, before buying a home on the island, and was often visited there by his former subordinate, James Bond novelist Ian Fleming ).

Chapman was promoted to full secretary-manager, replacing Langley, the following month, and soon made an impact, signing players such as England international Clem Stephenson from Aston Villa ( who became captain under Chapman ) and 18-year-old unknown George Brown ( who went on to become Huddersfield's all-time top scorer ).

& Stephenson, F. R. " Historical values of the Earth's clock error ΔT and the calculation of eclipses " ( pdf, 862 KB ), Journal for the History of Astronomy 35 ( 2004 ) 327 – 336.

*< cite id = morrste2004 > L V Morrison, F R Stephenson ( 2004 ), " Historical values of the Earth's clock error ΔT and the calculation of eclipses ", Journal for the History of Astronomy ( ISSN 0021-8286 ), vol.

Stephenson in 2004

* The Confusion, a 2004 novel by Neal Stephenson

In 2004 Crs Kelly and Stephenson were returned, but neither contested the elections of 2008.

Upon graduating, Stephenson was drafted 27th overall in the 2004 MLS SuperDraft by the Chicago Fire.

In 2004, Stephenson narrated the featurette " Space Age Gadgets " for the Jetsons First Season DVD box set.