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THE BOYHOOD OF
GREAT INVENTORS
THE EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE.
Frontispiece.
The Boyhood of
Great Inventors
BY
A. FRASER ROBERTSON
AUTHOR OF “EARLY YEARS OF SOME NOBLE LIVES”
NEW EDITION
LONDON
JOHN F. SHAW AND CO.
48, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME.
| 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 Saville. |
| MIDSHIPMITE CURLY | Dr. Gordon Stables. |
| THE DOG CRUSOE | R. M. Ballantyne. |
| THE SWORD OF THE CAREWS | Duncan McLaren. |
| THE NUGGET FINDERS | H. Alger. |
| ROBIN HOOD & HIS BRAVE FORESTERS | S. Percy. |
| MARTIN RATTLER | R. M. Ballantyne. |
| THE KING’S MESSENGER | L. Marston. |
| FOUR, AND WHAT THEY DID | H. Campbell. |
| FOR WANT OF A WORD | M. Mackintosh. |
| FOR ELSIE’S SAKE | J. Chappell. |
| CURLEY’S CRYSTAL | Emma Marshall. |
| IN SHADOWLAND | E. Everett-Green. |
| ROB AND MAG | L. Marston. |
| THAT BOY TOM | Ismay Thorn. |
| TIM’S TREASURE | Alice Lang. |
| LITTLE BOOTS | J. Harrison. |
| CLEMENT AND GEORDIE | Emma Marshall. |
| GOLD THAT GLITTERS | E. S. Holt. |
| PETER’S PROMISES | Emma Marshall. |
| MOLLIE WYNTER | M. Mackintosh. |
| THE SLAVE GIRL OF POMPEII | E. S. Holt. |
| MISS PRIMROSE | Agnes Giberne. |
| MAB’S BURDENS | E. Boddy. |
| BESIDE ALL WATERS | M. L. Astree. |
| WATCHING FOR THE KING | L. Marston. |
| NAN, THE CIRCUS GIRL | Frances Stratton |
| HOW THE TIDE TURNED | S. Watson. |
| A BROTHER’S RANSOM | Alice Lang. |
| LITTLE EYEBRIGHT | Agnes Giberne. |
| A LITTLE CURIOSITY | Emma Marshall. |
| MADCAP MARIGOLD | Mabel Mackintosh. |
| THE GOLDEN PAVEMENT | E. Chapman. |
| A WAIF OF THE WAVES | S. Watson. |
| CHRISTOPHER’S NEW HOME | Emma Marshall. |
| HIRA’S QUEST | L. Marston. |
| FROGGY’S LITTLE BROTHER | Brenda. |
LONDON: JOHN F. SHAW & CO.,
48, Paternoster Row, E.C.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| John Smeaton | 9 |
| John Flaxman | 30 |
| Sir Humphrey Davy | 48 |
| Sir Richard Arkwright | 67 |
| Josiah Wedgwood | 83 |
| George Stephenson | 102 |
| Thomas Alva Edison | 118 |
| James Watt | 141 |
THE BOYHOOD OF
GREAT INVENTORS
JOHN SMEATON.
People who have been on a long sea voyage, and have ended by sailing up the English Channel, tell us how their hearts beat high, after weary weeks and months at sea, when the cry went up while as yet land was a mere shadowy outline, “The Eddystone in sight!” For the gleaming lighthouse standing immovable in the midst of boiling waves and great mountains of blinding white spray spells “home” to the voyager.
To us the “stone” round which the waters ceaselessly churn and “eddy” speaks of John Smeaton, the man who built it. The great engineer has been in his grave now for more than a century, but his most lasting monument stood for longer than that time firm as a rock.
John Smeaton was born in 1724, near Leeds. Not the Leeds of to-day—a bustling, smoky centre of manufacture—but a quaint little town hemmed in by green country fields and lanes. It was in one of these that Austhorpe Lodge