The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election Also a list of America's most eligible women . uch pur-suits lie real honor and the nations glory. INSCRIPTIONON THE TABLET ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT FuLTON IN THE HALL of FAME. >OBERT FULTON, whose inventions gave birth to anew era in transportation facilities, and who thusbecame a great servant to mankind, was born at atown called Little Britain, but now called Fulton, LancasterCounty, Pennsylvania, in the year 1765. His father diedwhile he was very young, and he was
The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election Also a list of America's most eligible women . uch pur-suits lie real honor and the nations glory. INSCRIPTIONON THE TABLET ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT FuLTON IN THE HALL of FAME. >OBERT FULTON, whose inventions gave birth to anew era in transportation facilities, and who thusbecame a great servant to mankind, was born at atown called Little Britain, but now called Fulton, LancasterCounty, Pennsylvania, in the year 1765. His father diedwhile he was very young, and he was largely did, however, attend school for a little while. There is a story told of the boys intercourse with hisOuaker schoolmaster, Caleb Johnson, which is quite signi-ficant considering his after career. Mrs. Fulton had askedthe old Quaker how Robert was getting along at disgusted old pedagogue replied, I have used my bestendeavors to fasten his attention upon these studies, butRobert pertinaciously declares his head to be so full oforiginal notions that there is no vacant chamber to store awaythe contents of any dusty books. 128. FULTON At a very early age, young Fulton gave evidence of theoriginal and inventive quality of his mind. By the time hewas fourteen years of age, he was well known in all theworkshops of the town. He contrived, for his companions,a paddle-wheel, worked by a crank, for an old flat-bottomedfishing boat, in order to save the labor of polling it about onthe Conestoga River. During the Revolutionary War, whichwas going on about this time, he got the nickname of Quicksilver Bob, among the workmen at the smitherywhere the government arms were made, because of his readycalculations of balls and distances, and his greed for quick-silver for use in his private experiments. He also earlydeveloped a talent for drawing, which he displayed in cari-caturing the Whig and Tory boys in their rights about the age of seventeen, he fou
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