A history of the growth of the steam-engine . und,to which the works also made liberal contributions. Fromthat fund it was directed that the expenses of free educationof the children of the work-people, night-schools for thoseemployed in the works, a reading-room and library, medicaltreatment, and a benevolent fund were to be and cricket-clubs, and prize funds for the best gar-den, were also founded. The school, public hall, and the 204 THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. church of Clay Cross, and this noble system of support, aretogether a nobler monument than any statue or similarstructu
A history of the growth of the steam-engine . und,to which the works also made liberal contributions. Fromthat fund it was directed that the expenses of free educationof the children of the work-people, night-schools for thoseemployed in the works, a reading-room and library, medicaltreatment, and a benevolent fund were to be and cricket-clubs, and prize funds for the best gar-den, were also founded. The school, public hall, and the 204 THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. church of Clay Cross, and this noble system of support, aretogether 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 incentive to earnest effort and to the pursuit of anhonorable fame with hundreds of the youth who, readinghis simple yet absorbing story, as told by his biographer,shall in later years learn to know 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 engine-building establishment of the world. STEAM-LOCOMOTION ON EAILKOADS. 205 After their introduction on the Liverpool & Manches-ter road, the engines of the firm of Robert Stephenson &Co. were rapidly modified, until,they assumed the formshown in Figr 57, which remained standard until theirgradual increase in weight compelled the builders to placea larger number of wheels beneath them, and make thoseother changes which finally resulted in the creation of dis-tinct types for special kinds of work. In the engine of1833, as shown above, the cylinders. A, are carried at theextreme forward end of the boiler, and the driving-wheels,S, are coupled d
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