In 1806 he produced a pamphlet, A Description of the Town and Neighbourhood of Chepstow, based on the writings of Archdeacon Coxe, and in 1807 married Anne Whitford of nearby Mounton.

He also advertised a "Westphalian Essence", made from coal tar, vinegar, and port wine, for preserving and flavouring food.

In 1841, in A Letter to the Owners and Workers of Coal Mines, he outlined proposals for a national grid of gas pipelines, running alongside railway lines.

The idea was for a combined railway and carriage road bridge at English Stones, between New Passage in Gloucestershire and Black Rock in Monmouthshire, with 21 arches at least 120 ft above high water, and including shops and a lighthouse.

[5][7] Rogers also proposed, in 1844, a railway line extending ten thousand miles between London and Canton (now Guangzhou) in China.

In 1848 he spoke at a public meeting in Newport as a Chartist and Socialist, maintaining that wars would continue so long as commercial institutions were based on competition.

This contained extensive criticisms of the south Wales ironmasters, who had neglected scientific innovations and established a system that exploited the workers in the industry.

He also wrote in support of free non-religious education for all, the social and political equality of women, decimal coinage, smokeless fuel, and the protection of forests.

[2][4] Rogers was dismissed by Bailey in 1858, but continued to offer his services as a consultant on iron working, and helped set up the South Wales Institute of Engineers.

Crawshay Bailey rejected suggestions that he should help Rogers, and his only financial support came as a result of an appeal in the Mining Journal.

Though singularly odd, he was variously gifted and original, gentle-hearted, and fearless in the many causes he championed..."..[4] There is a road named in his honour, Samuel Rodgers [sic] Crescent, in recent housing development at Thornwell, Chepstow.