'Schizo on Sea'
P9 'Coal based, this prosperity took in iron and later steel, shipbuilding, chemicals, light and heavy engineering. This was the era of invention and the Tyne was in the forefront. From her banks came the first railways, the first electric lamp, the first big guns, the first dreadnaughts, the first lifeboats, the most daring bridges. Newcastle relinquished nominal control over the Tyne.'
P19 God of the Tyne
P93 'One of the best examples of these paternalistic but young and healthy concerns was the locomotive work of Robert Stephenson which he opened in 1824 with his father on forth banks, behind the present railway station. Here they built the Rocket Locomotion No.1, and many other famous early steam engines.'
P94 'Joseph Wilson Swan was not so typical. He invented the incandescent electric lamp in a laboratory in his Gateshead home.' 'Swan first demonstrated his lamp at the Lit-and-Phil, and he lit Mosley Street with electricity, the first street in the world to have ellctric light'
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