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George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer, (1899). In 1813 Stephenson (1781-1848) was commissioned to design his first steam locomotive, 'Blucher', for the Killingworth Colliery in Tyne and Wear. He went on to become the engineer for the Stockton & Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and advised on the construction of several other railways in Britain and Europe. An engraving from James Taylor's The Victorian Empire, William Mackenzie, (London, 1899).