theory of coal formation, 351;
meeting with Emerson, 352;
illness and death, 354;
characteristics, 368.

Stephenson, Robert,
his birth, death of his mother, 36;
his father's care for his education, 50;
is put to Rutter's school, Benton, 50;
sent to Bruce's school, Newcastle, 52;
evenings with his father, 54;
his boyish tricks, 55;
repeats Franklin's lightning experiment, 56;
his father's assistant, 50, 53;
gives lessons to the pitmen's sons, 60;
calculates the latitude for a sundial at Killingworth, 60;
his recollections of the trial of the first safety-lamp, 94;
apprenticed to a coal viewer, 119;
sent to college at Edinburgh, 121;
assists in survey of Stockton and Darlington Railway, 128;
assists in survey of Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 153;
leaves England for Colombia, 193;
residence at Mariquita, 196;
resigns his situation as mining engineer, 199;
rencontre with Trevithick at Cartagena, 200;
shipwreck, 201;
return to Newcastle, 202;
pamphlet on the locomotive engine, 206;
discussions with his father as to the locomotive, 208;
constructs the "Rocket," 210;
wins the prize, 218;
improvements in the locomotive, 221;
appointed engineer of Leicester and Swannington Railway, 232;
his first tunnel, 233;
finds coal at Snibston, 234;
appointed joint engineer of London and Birmingham Railway, 237;
construction of the works, 242;
overcomes the difficulties of the Kilsby Tunnel, 248;
letter to Sir Robert Peel on "undulating railways," 293;
his extensive employment, 302-3;
the competitor of Brunel, 304;
engineer of Newcastle and Berwick Railway, 306;
engineer of Royal Border Bridge, Berwick, 311;
engineer of High Level Bridge, Newcastle, 312;
engineer of Chester and Holyhead Railway, 320;
constructs the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges, 324;
succeeds to his father's wealth, and arranges to retire from
business, 357;
designs tubular bridges for Canada and Egypt, 357;
member of Parliament, foreign honours, 366;
death, 368;
character, 377.

Stock Exchange and railway speculation, 289.

Stockton and Darlington Railway,
projected, promoted by Edward Pease, 123;
act passed, 125;
re-surveyed by G. Steph