George and Robert Stephenson are well known names in the canon of
railway history. Henry Booth (who designed Rocket's boiler) was the
world's first railway manager and was instrumental in the adoption
of Greenwich Mean Time. Timothy Hackworth, the Methodist
engine-wright from Shildon, established his own engineering firm,
which built one of the first locomotives to run in Russia. Although
his locomotive Novelty was a failure, John Ericsson found fame as
the designer of the USS Monitor. This book seeks to explore the
social history of the Rainhill Trials, who these engineers were and
the times they lived and worked in.
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