Capitolo 30
good sound rudimentary education, he determined that Robert it doesn't owe
suffers a similar cause. Indeed, George Stephenson is splendid
abilities were far in the background kept too much long, while owing soon to his
desire of regular education. Then the good father worked very hard to send his
boy in school; not to the teacher of village only, but to a school for
gentlemen's children to Newcastle. Arranging clocks and it looks in of exchange
moments, and from rigid economy in all the non necessary expenses (especially
beer), Stephenson had gathered together again a small heap that
climbed on on this time to one hundred guineas. One hundred guineas are a
the fortune and a capital to a man that works. He was therefore enough rich,
not only to send small Robert to school, but also to buy him a donkey,
on that the boy took the trip every day from Killingworth to
Newcastle. This was in 1815, when George was thirty-four and Robert
twelve. Perhaps any man that it ever climbed so tall as George Stephenson,
you/he/she had ever arrived so little so comparatively late to the way to an age.
For despite his/her sure success, he/she saw from the point of view of
his/her origin and the first perspectives, he was still as after all nothing more
what a the ground of common ownership motor-wright of the coal mine of Killingworth--a long way
street as he/she anchors from his/her father separate of the system of platform.
The connection of George Stephenson with the locomotive, was equal however
now starting. Already, in 1816, his/her boy and he you/he/she had tried a rather
I fly taller than the mechanical and scientific ability that accustomed to, in the
construction of a sun-quadrant of which it behaves a considerable amount
I work mathematical and accurate; and George now founded that the subject of
motor locomotive they were forced from circumstances on his/her attention.
From the moment he was named motor-wright of the Killingworth
coal mine, he started entirely to think around possible he/she means to throw coal
to more convenient percentages from the mouth of the hole to the place of consignment on the