NOUN
- English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848)
How To Use George Stephenson In A Sentence
- Indeed George Stephenson originally envisaged the railway system as an extension of the colliery system.
- Of these men we have examples in Brindley, who was at first a labourer and afterwards a millwright; Telford was a stone-mason; Rennie a farmer's son apprenticed to a millwright; and George Stephenson was a brakesman at a colliery. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects
- George Stephenson, the constructer of the "Rocket," was also the hero of the Chat Moss. The Iron Horse
- All were watching, with eager anticipation, the replica of George Stephenson's Rocket, which crouched on the rails behind the museum emitting gouts of steam.