True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 108
t to support his widowedmother. By the time he was twenty-one years of age he hadearned enough money to buy a little farm for his mother soshe could keep cows, have a garden, and raise chickens, tur-key and other foul to sell. Then, with his mothers consent,he took the balance of his money and… … no ROBERT FULTON made a number of new machines. Among other things wasa little boat which he could make run under water. Heintended it to blow up war vessels, but somehow the peopledid not think it of any use. About this time he began to beinterested in the steam engine, which was invented by…
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