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Before Rocket
Rocket is perhaps one of the best-known railway locomotives in history. Entered by George and Robert Stephenson and Henry Booth for the Rainhill Trials of October 1829, Rocket was the outright victor and paved the way for the dominance of the steam railway as the major means of communication for the next hundred years or more. But Rocket was not ‘the first’ locomotive – that honor goes to the work of Cornishman Richard Trevithick, while the Middleton Railway saw the first commercial use of steam locomotives in 1812. This book sets out to chart the development of the steam locomotive from its birth with Richard Trevithick up to the momentous year of 1829, showing just how far the locomotive had come in a quarter of century, to go on to be the world-changing invention it became.
The Georgia Blankenships
Ralph Blankenship (b. ca. 1660-1714) is the first generation listed in this family history. He married Martha and immigrated from Northumberland, England to Virginia ca. 1686. One of his descendants, Solomon Blankenship (1797-ca. 1884) is considered to be the Patriarch of Georgia Blankenships in this work. He married Frankie Kilgore in 1822 and they reared from five to seven children. Solomon married his second wife, Lucinda McCoy in 1846. "Family tradition" states that a large number of children, as many as twelve, issued from this union. Descendants and relatives lived primarily in Georgia
Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry
Includes list of members, 1882-1902 and proceedings of the annual meetings and various supplements.
The Lancet
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