info on Stephenson?

Question

I need info on stepherson (the inventor of the lighthouse)
I need stuff like the date it was created, what it was made of and how it worked etc. can you give me some info?

Answer 1

there are a few here:

http://www.bellrock.org.uk/stevensons/stevenson_who.htm

Answer 2

Wikipedia is a fairly comprehensive starting point. The whole family were at it! I have only been to the old station on Tiree (for Skerryvore) but the island is so windswept that the ruins seem quite poignant. There is a paperback by Bella Bathurst on the Stephenson lighthouses. 'The Lighthouse Stevensons' see:

http://www.saltwaterclassics.com/product_info.php?cPath=3_40&products_id=83

Answer 3

Here's another link. Note that he's Stevenson, same family as the author Robert Louis Stevenson, different from locomotive engineer George Stephenson.

Answer 4

KNOWN universally - but somewhat erroneously - as the Father of the Railways, George Stephenson (1781-1848) was the son of a Northumbrian colliery steam-engine keeper. He was born in the village of Wylam on the River Tyne, a few miles west of Newcastle.




LOCOMOTION (top) was built by the Stephensons in 1825 for the Stockton-Darlington line. Above, the cottage in Wylam, Northumberland, where Stephenson was born in 1781.
He began his working life alongside his father at Dewley Colliery but he was ambitious and took the first steps towards fame by learning to read and write at night school. Fascinated by machinery, Stephenson became enginewright at Killingworth Colliery in 1812 and studied the work of Watt and Trevithick.

In 1813, hearing about the success of William Hedley and Timothy Hackworth with their Puffing Billy at Wylam Colliery, he persuaded Nicholas Wood, his own colliery manager, to let him try his hand at building a railway engine. The result, the following year, was the less-than-impressiveBlucher.


The Blucher was slow and unreliable on the colliery's wooden tram road, but its two vertical cylinders set into the boiler allowed it to pull 30 tons up a gradient at four mph.

More importantly, Stephenson's creation avoided the use of cog and rack pinions - it was the first successful flanged-wheel locomotive and, like Hedley's machine, it relied on adhesion between wheel and track.

Despite its shortcomings, Blucher helped to create Stephenson's reputation. He improved the design the following year by making the connecting rods drive the wheels directly, coupling each pair of wheels together by a chain. Over the next five years he built 16 more locomotives at Killingworth, some for the colliery and some for the Duke of Portland's wagonway between Kilmarnock and Troon.

Stephenson had now made his mark and in 1819, he was asked to construct an eight-mile line from Hetton to Sunderland.

This involved locomotives on some stretches but fixed hauling engines where the terrain was steep, and the experience convinced the engineer that, to be successful, future lines had to be made as level as possible.

In 1821 the Stockton and Darlington Railway was given Parliamentary approval at the third time of asking, but its proprietor, Edward Pease, envisaged using horse traction. Stephenson showed him Blucher at work at Killingworth and Pease became an instant convert to steam, offering Stephenson the post of chief engineer on the new line.

The same year, John Birkinshaw of Bedlington Ironworks devised a method of rolling 15-foot lengths of wrought-iron rails and Stephenson adopted the idea because it was better than the rails he was producing himself.

In 1823, Pease, a retired woollen merchant, joined Stephenson and his son Robert in a firm to build steam locomotives.

Robert Stephenson and Co opened for business at Forth Street, Newcastle, Timothy Hackworth joining them soon afterwards to help build the famous engine Locomotion, now in the Science Museum.

Answer 5

Pamela. Married to Billy Connolly. Used to be on "Not the 9 o'clock news" with rowan Atkinson and Mel Smith.

Answer 6

Light power measured in candle power, increased by use of prisms,and actuall unit floats on mercury wich can be turned by hand.Modern lighthouse's not man fully auto. sos mate thats all I can remember