This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...you remember, went to South America three years before. There he had regained his health, and on receiving his father's letter made immediate preparations to return to England. J2 Story of an Inventor. On his way, at a poor little comfortless inn, in a poor little comfortless seaport on the Gulf of Darien, where he was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...you remember, went to South America three years before. There he had regained his health, and on receiving his father's letter made immediate preparations to return to England. J2 Story of an Inventor. On his way, at a poor little comfortless inn, in a poor little comfortless seaport on the Gulf of Darien, where he was waiting to take ship, he met two strangers--one evidently an Englishman, who by his appearance looked as if the world had gone hard with him. A fellow-feeling drew the young man towards his poor countryman, and on inquiry, who should it prove to be but the old Cornwall tin-miner, Captain Trovethick, whose first steamcarriage awoke so much curiosity in London nearly a quarter of a century before. He had sown his idea to the winds. Others had caught it up, cherished it, pondered over it, examined it, dissected it, improved it, embodied it, and by patient study and persistent endeavour had reduced it to a practical force. And Robert Stephenson was now on his way to inaugurate it as one of the great commercial values of the kingdom and of the world. The poor inventor, what had he done meanwhile? While others worked had he slept? Oh no! he had tried an easier and shorter road to fame and fortune. You remember he left his "dragon," as some people called his locomotive, in London, quite careless what became of it, and went scheming and speculating in other things. Several years after, in a shop window, it attracted the attention of a French gentleman passing by. He was from Peru, and had just come to England to get a steam-engine for pumping water from some gold-diggings in the New World. Delighted with the model, he bought it for twenty guineas. Taking it with him to Lima, an engine was built on the plan of it, which worked admirably. Tre...
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