He then, still with financial support from these and other benefactors ( including Dr. Walter B. Stephenson of the Delta Electric Company ), studied medicine at Meharry Medical College in Tennessee, from which he graduated in 1937.

Snow studied in York until the age of 14, when he was apprenticed to William Hardcastle, a surgeon in Newcastle upon Tyne and physician to George Stephenson and family.

* Mercedes Stephenson, studied at the University of Calgary and is a reporter for CTV News Channel.

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.

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.

Stephenson at a book signing in 2004

* " 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.

* Zodiac by Neal Stephenson ; an eco-thriller focusing on industrial pollution in Boston Harbor

Cellier composed a three-act grand opera, Pandora, a version of Longfellow's The Masque of Pandora ( with a libretto by B. C. Stephenson ) that was presented in Boston in 1881.

George Stephenson College, founded in 2001 on the University of Durham's Queen's Campus in Stockton-on-Tees, is named after him, with the student union bar being named The Rocket.

* David Stephenson ( 1984 ) The governance of Gwynedd ( University of Wales Press ) ISBN 0-7083-0850-3

* Fred Stephenson Norcross ( 1884 – 1975 ), University of Michigan football captain, coach Oregon State University

* Winterton, G, " The Constitutional Implications of a Republic " in MA Stephenson & C Turner ( eds ), Australia: Republic or Monarchy ?, University of Queensland Press ( 1994 ), 15-33.

* Lindsay Dunn, The Stephenson Trial: Internal Klan Conflicts Linked to Downfall of Second Klan in Indiana, Columbia University

* Prof Patrick Stephenson, Professor of Mechanical Engineering from 1967-79 at the University of Strathclyde ( 1927-32 )

The work was strongly influenced by work at UCLA and the University of Michigan during that period, as well as science fiction authors Neal Stephenson and Vernor Vinge.

The Clarendon Building was added in 1973, as was the Stephenson Building in 1976, with both remaining in use for the Polytechnic's long-awaited conversion into a University.

Stephenson College is a college of the University of Durham in England, and one of two located at Queen's Campus in Stockton-on-Tees, south of the city of Durham itself.

In 2001, UDSC was split into two colleges: one was John Snow College, and the other was George Stephenson College ; the campus was also renamed University of Durham, Queen's Campus ( UDQC ), in honour of the Queen's jubilee.

In September 2001 John Snow and George Stephenson Colleges were formed out of University of Durham Stockton Campus, which although it provided UDSCBC the opportunity to create two separate clubs, it was decided due to low membership and boats that it should remain a joint club.

Susan Snell Delaney Hall ( Civic Engagement, Criminology, English, ROTC, Social Justice, UJAAMA ), Donna D. Putt Hall ( Fine Arts, Music ), Suites on Maple East ( Food and Nutrition, Nursing and Allied Health, SOAR, Wellness ), MG Rodney Ruddock Hall ( Communications Media, Education, Education Tech., Health and Physica Education ), Northern Suites ( Intensive Study, Natural Science and Math, Safety Science, WMST ), Stephenson Hall, Gealy W. Wallwork Hall ( Asian Studies, Global Awareness, Piso Cervantes, International Students ), Suites on Pratt ( Leadership Development ), Crimson Suites ( Business ), Whitmyre Hall ( Robert E. Cook Honors College ), Elkin Hall, McCarthy Hall, and University Towers ( university owned apartments ).

Stephenson was an All-American at the University of Alabama, under coach Bear Bryant.

10979 Fristephenson is a small main belt asteroid named for F. Richard Stephenson, a British astronomer with important contributions to the History of astronomy and Earth's rotation at the University of Durham.

* David Stephenson ( 1984 ) The governance of Gwynedd ( University of Wales Press ) ISBN 0-7083-0850-3

Professor F. Richard Stephenson ( born 1941 ) is an Emeritus Professor at the Physics department and East Asian Studies department at the University of Durham.

After attending a year at University of Omaha, Stephenson took a job as a DJ in Alliance, Nebraska.