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engines continued in use at the Wylam collieries many
years. The second engine was removed in 1862, and is now
preserved at the South Kensington Museum, London.
GEORGE STEPHENSON, to whom is generally accorded the honor of having first made the locomotive-engine a suc- cess, built his first engine at Killingworth, England, in 1814.
At this time Stephenson was by no means alone in the field, for the idea of applying the steam-engine to driving carriages on common roads and on railroads was beginning, as has been seen, to attract considerable attention. Ste- phenson, however, combined, in a very fortunate degree, the advantages of great natural inventive talent and an excellent mechanical training, reminding one strongly of James Watt. Indeed, Stephenson's portrait bears some resemblance to that of the earlier great inventor.
George Stephenson was born June 9, 1781, at Wylam,
George Stephenson.
