Robert Stephenson, English Civil Engineer
Robert Stephenson (October 16, 1803 - October 12, 1859) was an English civil engineer, son of George Stephenson. In 1823, he set up a company in partnership with his father, Michael Longridge and Edward Pease to build railway locomotives. The Forth Street Works, were the first locomotive works in the world. He spent three years in South America working as an engineer in the Colombian gold mines. He worked on the development of a locomotive to compete in the forthcoming Rainhill Trials. The result was the Rocket, which had a multi-tubular boiler to obtain maximum steam pressure from the exhaust gases. Following its success, the company built locomotives for the Leicester and Swannington Railways. In 1830, he designed Planet, a much more advanced locomotive than Rocket. He also constructed a number of well-known bridges to carry the new railway lines. From 1851 to 1853, he built the railway from Alexandria to Cairo, which was extended to Suez in 1858. He died in 1859 at the age of 55. In his eulogy, he was called, "the greatest engineer of the present century".
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