Stephenson’s Rocket and the Rainhill Trials - Richard Gibbon - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Booktok.dk

George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, is an enduring silhouette in railway history. Rocket was built to take part in The Rainhill Trials, a competition to find a locomotive design to pull trains on the world's first passenger line, the Liverpool and Manchester. The trials caught the public's imagination and its victor, Rocket, became a sensation.