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The courage and perseverance of Englishmen under difficulties have become proverbial, and these admirable qualities were never shown to greater advantage than in the lives of George and Robert Stephenson. The father was vigorous in mind and body, strong and self-reliant in character, always keeping his end steadily in View, and yet with a strain of tenderness running through his nature which rendered him humane and sympathetic towards struggling merit wherever he found it. Similar in gifts and disposition was the son and the names of both are indis solubly connected with that mighty engine of modern progress, the locomotive. Their hardships, disappointments, and final triumphs form one of the most interesting chapters in the fairy tales of science.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 1330761723
- ISBN 13 9781330761724
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages488
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