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Excerpt from Lives of the Engineers: George and Robert Stephenson
The Invention of the Locomotive Engine and its application to the working of Railways, is one of the most remarkable events of the present century. Within a period of about thirty years, railways have been adopted as the chief means of internal communication in all civilised countries. The expenditure involved in their construction has been of an extraordinary character. In Great Britain alone, at the end of the year 1856, not less than had been raised and expended in the construction of 8635 miles of railway, which were then open for public traffic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
