3-070-558 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Century of George Stephenson, the Father of Railways, 1881. Engraved portrait '...from the picture by John Lucas, copied by permission of Henry Graves and Co.', published in a special supplement to celebrate the centenary of Stephenson's birth. George Stephenson (1781-1848) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Pioneered by Stephenson, rail transport was one of the most important technological inventions of the 19th century and a key component of the Industrial Revolution. Illustration of workman by William Heysham Overend. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.