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THE railway genius George Stephenson, who engineered the Liverpool & Manchester line, still suffers from the class prejudice that was directed at him 175 years ago, says his biographer.
Hunter Davies, whose biographies range from The Beatles to, most recently, the ex-Evertonfootballer Paul Gascoigne, maintains that Stephenson should be placed above the all-conquering Isambard Kingdom Brunel in the all- time engineering greats'pantheon.See the full content of this document
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A Genius Who Suffered Class Prejudice
"George Stephenson is one of the few people in our planet's history who changed the world into which he was born, yet he ...
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