Abstract :
In 1829 the science museum claims that it `changed the future¿, but it wasn¿t a conventional revolution. George Stephenson¿s canary yellow Rocket steam locomotive is an unusual icon of engineering in that it wasn¿t anything particularly new. And yet how it achieved its fame will be familiar, as it was the first time that several new technologies were brought together as the blue print of what steam locomotives would be like for the next 150 years.
