Another crisis arises, however, when Thomas Bradford ( played by James Stephenson ), a wealthy businessman from Chicago, arrives to discuss financing of Ward's invention.

England Test cricketer Paul Collingwood played for Shotley Bridge Cricket Club in his youth where he learned his trade under the tutelage of the great CG Stephenson.

A product of the Real Mona youth system, Stephenson played college soccer at Williams College from 2000 to 2003, where he was named a Division III first-team All-American his junior and senior seasons.

Stephenson played very little for the Wizards in his rookie season, finishing the year with no points, having played only 44 minutes over three games.

Randolph Carter was played by Mark Kinsey Stephenson.

Mr. Spudich served on the Freeport Library Board, was a Freeport City Alderman, coached the Frogs Girls Softball Team, played slow pitch softball in his 1970s, helped move a log cabin to the Stephenson County Historical Society grounds in Freeport, and did all the stonework on his own house plus a lot of stonework for others.

" Beck played some of his songs for Stephenson ; Stephenson enjoyed the songs, but was unimpressed by Beck's rapping.

Ballarat has hosted international and interstate matches since 1862 when the first England touring team captained by H. H. Stephenson of Surrey played a XXII from Ballarat.

* In the 1994 special A Flintstones Christmas Carol, the character is called ' Jacob Marbley ' and is played by Mr. Slate ( John Stephenson ).

In 1892, he played in W. S. Gilbert's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, a parody of Hamlet, and Faithful James, by B. C. Stephenson, with Ellaline Terriss, both at the Court Theatre.

' portrayed Anna Ford ( played by Pamela Stephenson ) as having been secretly in love with her fellow newsreader, and saddened by his disappearance from the programme (" Oh Bosanquet, why did you go away?

* The Johnny Carson Show where Stephenson played himself but acted as a super serious news-break announcer on several episodes while Carson played the roving reporter in the sketches ; On screen Stephenson wore a suit and a fedora, typical attire for the hard-boiled character often played up on early television ; Carson's series ran during 1955-1956.

* The Burns and Allen Show where Stephenson made multiple cameo guest appearances, such as the episodes titled, " How To Wrap a Mink " ( air date-December 23rd, 1957-CBS ) and " Gracie and the Jury " ( air date: April 23rd, 1958-CBS ) where Stephenson played a Prosecuting Attorney.

Based on the sexual relationship between Jamie's character and his step-mum, Rupert Hill claimed that he wasn't quite sure about Jamie's true feeling for Frankie, though he could clarify why Jamie had such feelings, he was concerned about how the storyline had an uncomfortable atmosphere, he admitted that he and Debra Stephenson, who played Frankie, were wary about filming these scenes, thinking it was sensational and irregular, though the scripts they received were more than interesting.

Read's uncle ( by marriage ) Heathfield Stephenson had a long career with Surrey, and his brother Frederick Read also played one first-class game for the county.

He was played by Henry Stephenson in the 1938 Marie Antoinette film, and by Steve Coogan in the 2006 film of the same name.

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.

Warner originally had suggested Stephenson for the role, but after Wyler cast him, the studio head had second thoughts and thought the role was too important to cast an unknown in it.

She became internationally famous for her performance in the title role in Dorothy by Alfred Cellier and B. C. Stephenson ( 1887 ), which ran for a record-setting 931 performances ( becoming a hit after Tempest took over the title role from Marion Hood ).

Stephenson reprised his role of Luke from Wacky Races in the Wacky Races video game.

Stephenson played in the specialist role for the vast majority of his playing career.

* 16 November 2010: Gatwick Airport Limited announced the appointment of Guy Stephenson as its new commercial director, with responsibility for the airport's airline route development and car parking strategies.

Hackworth is believed to have been influential in the development of the first Stephenson locomotive intended for the Stockton and Darlington Railway during his time at the Forth Street factory.

By placing the reader amongst a world of ideas that change the course of science, Stephenson explores the development of the scientific method.

Locke ranked alongside Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel as one of the major pioneers of railway development.

In a 2010 interview with The Telegraph, La Plante complained, “ If my name were Usafi Iqbadal and I was 19, then they ’ d probably bring me in and talk .” “ But ... it ’ s their lack of respect that really grates on me .” She went on to say, " If you were to go to the BBC and say to them, ‘ Listen, Lynda La Plante ’ s written a new drama, or I have this little Muslim boy who's just written one ’, they ’ d say: ‘ Oh, we ’ d like to see his script .’” Ben Stephenson ( BBC Controller of Drama ) responded, " She has one piece at the moment, and one that we paid fully for the script development.

Again, as in Quicksilver, Stephenson is concerned with the development of modern economics, science, politics, currency, information technology, trade, religion and cryptography.

Hitler believed that the standard Stephenson gauge was obsolete and was too narrow for the full development of railways.

* Game development system: Jeff Stephenson, Chris Iden

* George and Robert Stephenson were hugely influential figures in the development of the early railways.

George Stephenson ( 9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848 ) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives.

* 1825: George Stephenson opens the Stockton and Darlington Railway the first steam train railway for passenger traffic in the world.

This success led to Stephenson establishing his company as the pre-eminent builder of steam locomotives used on railways in the United Kingdom, the United States and much of Europe.

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.

It is the most famous example of an evolving design of locomotives by Stephenson that became the template for most steam engines in the following 150 years.

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.

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.

The proposal – backed by William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, Richard Arkwright junior, and several Manchester bankers – was ambitious ; it was expected that steam locomotives would be used on the line, even though the technology was in its infancy and George Stephenson did not build his revolutionary Rocket until 1829.

George Stephenson, the line's civil engineer, was unsurprisingly firmly in favour of steam traction and asked for a report from Timothy Hackworth, who confirmed that he was having difficulties but was optimistic about overcoming them.

* Locomotion No 1, an early steam locomotive by George Stephenson

For the incline from Euston Station to Chalk Farm, Stephenson devised a system that would draw trains up the hill by a rope using a stationary steam engine near The Roundhouse.

While traffic was originally intended to be horse-drawn, Stephenson carried out a fresh survey of the route to allow steam haulage.

Stephenson had given up on the " steam springs " that were proving unsuccessful at Hetton, but retained other improvements, such as the direct connection of the pistons by crank rods, though the wheels were coupled by gears.

The expertise that Stephenson and his apprentice Joseph Locke gained in railway construction and locomotive building on the S & DR enabled them a few years later to construct the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the first purpose-built steam railway and also the Stephensons ' Rocket locomotive.

* Draughtsman William Howe and pattern-maker William Williams of Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle upon Tyne originate Stephenson valve gear for the steam locomotive.

* July 25-George Stephenson puts his first steam locomotive in service, the Blücher for Killingworth Colliery on Tyneside in England.

Stephenson realised that the cast-iron plateway could not support the weight of a steam locomotive and declined.

Puffing Billy was an important influence on George Stephenson, who lived locally, and its success was a key factor in promoting the use of steam locomotives by other collieries in north-eastern England.

* The Duke, a short-lived 0-6-0 steam locomotive built in 1817 by George Stephenson for the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway

* Diagrams of Walschaerts valve gear and Stephenson valve gear, as supplied on working steam model locomotives.