CONTENTS.
PART L-THE PIONEER ENGINEERS.
CHAPTER L-THE LOCOMOTIVE MEN. CHAPTER II-THE STATIONARY-ENGINE MEN CHAPTER III-THE LOCOMOTIVE AND ITS DRIVER . PAGE 1 6 11 PART II-EARLY HISTORY OF THE LOCOMOTIVE. CHAPTER I. THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE LOCOMOTIVE:-Cugnot's Engine. Murdoch's Engine R " " • b " • CHAPTER II.-THE COAL TRAMWAYS:-Trovethick's Engines.— Wooden Rails.—Coal Waggons.—Brakes.-Cast-iron Rails at Colebrookedale.-Cast-iron Plate-rail.-Cast-iron Edge- rail CHAPTER III-RICHARD TREVETHICK:-The first Working Locomotives. Trevethick and Vivian's Road Locomotive.- Trevethick's Railway Locomotive.-Trevethick at Cartagena, and his Voyage Home. CHAPTER IV. THE BACK-RAIL AND THE CENTRAL CHAIN :— Blenkinsop's Engine and the Rack-rail.-Chapman's Engine with the Central Chain.-Brunton's Locomotive Engine CHAPTER V.-WILLIAM HEDLEY AND THE PLAIN RAILS:- Mr. Blackett's Enterprise on the Wylam Railway.—Hedley's Engine. His Test-carriage for proving adhesion," Black Billy." Hedley's second Engine. CHAPTER VI. GEORGE STEPHENSON:-His Birthplace, Wylam.- Mid-Mill Winnin Colliery.-His Marriage.-Struggles.- Willington Quay.-Drawn for the Militia.-At Westmoor.- Break-down at the "Grand Allies."-Freeing the High Pit of Water. At Killingworth.-Receives an Order to Build an Engine " • 20 27 37 49 68 67
