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George A. Stephen Sr. (February 26, 1921 – February 11, 1993 [1] [2]) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and the founder of Weber-Stephen Products Co., the company best known for the manufacturing of charcoal and gas grills.
The Geordie lamp was a safety lamp for use in flammable atmospheres, invented by George Stephenson in 1815 as a miner's lamp to prevent explosions due to firedamp in coal mines. Origin [ edit ]
George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer during the Industrial Revolution. [1] Renowned as the "Father of Railways", [2] Stephenson was considered by the Victorians as a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement.
Replica of the original 1951 Weber kettle grill. Weber-Stephen was originally incorporated on May 8, 1893, as Weber Bros. Metal Works. [3]In 1951, the original round charcoal kettle grill was built by George Stephen Sr., a then part-owner of the sheet metal shop in Chicago who sought to improve on the brazier he had been using to cook with at home. [4]
George Milner Stephen (1812–1894), Australian politician, member of the South Australian Legislative Council and later, the Victorian Legislative Assembly; George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen (1829–1921), Canadian banker and railway executive; George A. Stephen (c.1922–1993), American inventor, entrepreneur, and the founder of Weber ...
Stephenson's Rocket is an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement.It was built for and won the Rainhill Trials of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), held in October 1829 to show that improved locomotives would be more efficient than stationary steam engines.
George Stephen [7] created the iconic hemispherical grill design, jokingly called "Sputnik" by Stephen's neighbors. Stephen, a welder, worked for Weber Brothers Metal Works, a metal fabrication shop primarily concerned with welding steel spheres together to make buoys. Stephen was tired of the wind blowing ash onto his food when he grilled so ...
George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen, GCVO (5 June 1829 – 29 November 1921), known as Sir George Stephen, Bt, between 1886 and 1891, was a Canadian businessman. Originally from Scotland , he made his fame in Montreal and was the first Canadian to be elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom .