The Rocket was designed and built by George Stephenson with the help of his son, Robert, and Henry Booth, for the 1829 Rainhill Trials. The Trials were held by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway ...

With steam engines on wheels, we could travel faster than ever before. Woman 1: This is Stephenson's Rocket. In 1829 it won the Rainhill Trials… a competition to decide on the best mode of ...

in 1829, a competition to find the best passenger steam locomotive in Britain.On the 150th anniversary of the trials, replicas of its famous winner - Stephenson's 'Rocket' - and two of its ...

Robert Stephenson, called the greatest engineer of the ... On 17th June 1829 he married Frances Sanderson but they had no children. His steam engine Rocket was entered for the Rainhill Trials in 1829 ...

in which the Stephensons competed with their famous Rocket in 1829. The prize was £500 and a contract for the winner’s locomotive to be used on the new Liverpool & Manchester Railway.