The Boyhood of Great Inventors

Strange as it may seem to us, what sounds the very common business of making rough earthenware milk-bowls and butter-pots and plates was often half shrouded in mystery, and went...

What battles he fought for it when the country rose in arms and said they would rather hold by the old post-horses and coaches that had been good enough for their fathers! They...

And now Smeaton's name was made. Other feats followed. Other triumphs awaited him--the building of docks and harbours and bridges--but the thing that men will ever link with his...

Not knowing his man, the sender began slowly--then quickened his pace. So did Edison. Quicker still he worked. Edison was in no way discomfited. Soon the New York man had reache...

So his boyhood sped away, and when his apprenticeship had come to an end he took the great and important step of setting up for himself. He left Preston and went to Bolton. Poor...

Humphrey was the son of a wood-carver, a man not high up in the world, but we find him free enough from the straits of poverty that have often been the cradle of genius, though,...

THE BOYHOOD OF GREAT INVENTORS A. FRASER ROBERTSON. TWILIGHT STORIES CATHARINE SHAW. FOR LOVE AND DUTY FRANK SAVILLE. THE BOYS OF ALL SAINTS MABEL MACKINTOSH. DARING DEEDS FRANK...

A friend, seeing him cast down and unhappy, advised him to give up inventing. As well might he have advised the sun not to shine or living man to cease from breathing. Meantime...