Excerpt from Leaders of Modern Industry: Biographical Sketches The courage and perseverance of Englishmen under difficulties have become proverbial, and these admirable qualities were never shown to greater advantage than in the lives of George and Robert Stephenson. The father was vigorous in mind and body, strong and self-reliant in character, always keeping his end steadily in View, and yet with a strain of tenderness running through his nature which rendered him humane and sympathetic towards struggling merit wherever he found it. Similar in gifts and disposition was the son and the names of both are indis solubly connected with that mighty engine of modern progress, the locomotive. Their hardships, disappointments, and final triumphs form one of the most interesting chapters in the fairy tales of science. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.