A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 229
her a nobler monument than any statue or similarstructure could be. The character of George Stephenson was in every wayadmirable. Simple, earnest, and hoporable; courageous,indomitable, and industrious ; humorous, kind, and philan-thropic, his memory will long be cherished, and will longprove an… … After the death of his father, Robert Stephenson con-tinued, as he had already done for several years, to conductthe business of building locomotives, as well as of construct-ing railroads. The work of locomotive engine-building wasdone at Newcastle, and for many years those works werethe principal…
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