Transcriber's Note:
This children's book has a new paragraph for every sentence,and other unusual formatting.
Inconsistent hyphenation and quotation marks in the originaldocument have been preserved.
A number of obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text.For a complete list, please see the end of this document.
Young Folk's Library of Choice Literature
STORIES OF
GREAT INVENTORS
FULTON
WHITNEY
MORSE
COOPER
EDISON
BY
HATTIE E. MACOMBER
EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
BOSTON
New York Chicago San Francisco
Copyrighted
By EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
1897
CONTENTS.
FULTON.
Robert Fulton.ToC
This story is about a giant.
Do you believe in them?
He peeps out of your coffee cup in the morning.
He cheers you upon a cold day in winter.
But the boys and girls were not so well acquainted with him ahundred years ago.
About that long ago, far to the north and east, a queer boy lived.
He sat in his grandmother's kitchen many an hour, watching thetea-kettle.
[8]He seemed to be idle.
But he was really very busy.
He was talking very earnestly to the giant.
The giant was a prisoner.
No one knew how to free him.
Many had often tried to do this and failed.
He was almost always invisible.
But when he did appear, it was in the form of a very old