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Page 70
... light of a fire of shavings , when denied a candle by his parsimonious master . He says that in 1772 , when only seventeen years old , he began to con- trive some method of propelling land carriages by other means than animal power ...
... light of a fire of shavings , when denied a candle by his parsimonious master . He says that in 1772 , when only seventeen years old , he began to con- trive some method of propelling land carriages by other means than animal power ...
Page 83
... steam turbine , which sends its awful energy , transformed into electric current , to light a million lamps or to turn ten thousand wheels on distant streets and highways . CHAPTER IV SPINDLE , LOOM , AND NEEDLE IN NEW STEAM IN CAPTIVITY ...
... steam turbine , which sends its awful energy , transformed into electric current , to light a million lamps or to turn ten thousand wheels on distant streets and highways . CHAPTER IV SPINDLE , LOOM , AND NEEDLE IN NEW STEAM IN CAPTIVITY ...
Page 140
... light in the United States and to the first photo- graphs of the human face taken anywhere . Da- guerre had never attempted to photograph living objects and did not think it could be done , as rigid- ity of position was required for a ...
... light in the United States and to the first photo- graphs of the human face taken anywhere . Da- guerre had never attempted to photograph living objects and did not think it could be done , as rigid- ity of position was required for a ...
Page 161
... lights of it , " which burn without a wick and are very bright , " and " shoes of it which are waterproof , and when smoked they have the appearance of leather . They also make pear - shaped bottles on the necks of which they fasten ...
... lights of it , " which burn without a wick and are very bright , " and " shoes of it which are waterproof , and when smoked they have the appearance of leather . They also make pear - shaped bottles on the necks of which they fasten ...
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... light- ened and expedited the labor of the fields . When Charles was seven his father moved to Naugatuck and manufactured the first pearl buttons made in America ; during the War of 1812 the Goodyear factory supplied metal buttons to ...
... light- ened and expedited the labor of the fields . When Charles was seven his father moved to Naugatuck and manufactured the first pearl buttons made in America ; during the War of 1812 the Goodyear factory supplied metal buttons to ...
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afterwards Albany American balloon became began Benjamin Franklin better boat Boston Boulton and Watt brothers built Canal CHAPTER Charles Goodyear chine Clermont cloth colonies Colt Congress cotton gin Curtiss discovery Dwight Goddard dynamo early Edison electricity Eli Whitney England experiments factory farm father flying Haven Henry Howe's hundred idea improved industry invention inventor James Watt John Stevens labor Langley later light Livingston locomotive London Lowell machinery manufacture mechanical ment miles Miller mills Morse motor newspapers Oliver Evans partners Patent Act Pennsylvania Philadelphia ploughs practical principle printing produced profits railway reaper Robert Fulton rubber Samuel Samuel Colt SAMUEL F. B. MORSE says sewing machine sold soon South spinning steam engine steamboat story success telegraph thousand dollars tion took turn United Washington Whitney's wings wire Wright York young