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English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848)
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stephenson
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Population (2000): 875 Housing Units (2000): 421 Land area (2000): 1.093570 sq. miles (2.832333 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.093570 sq. miles (2.832333 sq. km) FIPS code: 76380 Located within: Michigan ...
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Stephenson is a surname. Stephenson may also refer to:
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He had built some in England or Scotland or somewhere, but now he was in America, and do you think La Fayette would invite Stephenson to build his steam wagons in Canada?
Anyway, La Fayette laughed aloud and said, “Frederic, if I had Stephenson build his railroad in Canada, you’d have me cashiered for wasting money on nonsense.
Disregarding the Stephenson Rocket, the total heating surface ranged from ~1,400 to ~6,100 square feet, and the grate areas from 20 to 100 square feet.
In the case of Neal Stephenson, the SF geeks have embraced the author with an obsession unseen in speculative literature since the 1960s, even as his books make barely a blip in the consciousness of mainstream America.
This important use of the waste steam had been introduced by George Stephenson some years before, though entirely unknown to me.