George and Robert Stephenson - A Passion for Success

摘要

It is strange that so many more pages of print have been devoted in recent years to Isambard Brunei than to George and Robert Stephenson whose influence on the world at large was so much more important. Even L T C Rolt in his three civil engineering biographies published in 1957-60 wrote about Brunei first, Telford next and then the Stephensons. Since then there have been Hunter Davies' George Stephenson: Father of Railways (1975), Michael Bailey's Robert Stephenson: the Eminent Engineer.