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... manufacture of glass , was made by leaching wood ashes and boiling down the lye . To produce a ton of potash , the trees on an acre of ground would be cut down and burned , the ashes leached , and 28 THE AGE OF INVENTION.
... manufacture of glass , was made by leaching wood ashes and boiling down the lye . To produce a ton of potash , the trees on an acre of ground would be cut down and burned , the ashes leached , and 28 THE AGE OF INVENTION.
Page 29
... manufacture of boats , and for propelling boats by cattle . On August 26 , 1791 , James Rumsey , John Stevens , and John Fitch ( all three will appear again in this narrative ) took out patents on means of propelling boats . On FRANKLIN ...
... manufacture of boats , and for propelling boats by cattle . On August 26 , 1791 , James Rumsey , John Stevens , and John Fitch ( all three will appear again in this narrative ) took out patents on means of propelling boats . On FRANKLIN ...
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... manufacture of the fiber into yarn and cloth seems to have developed in- dependently in each of them . We find mention of cotton in India fifteen hundred years before Christ . The East Indians , with only the crudest ma- chinery , spun ...
... manufacture of the fiber into yarn and cloth seems to have developed in- dependently in each of them . We find mention of cotton in India fifteen hundred years before Christ . The East Indians , with only the crudest ma- chinery , spun ...
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... manufacture of cotton , the fight was won . The Manchester spinners , however , used linen for their warp threads , for without machinery they could not spin threads sufficiently strong from the short - fibered Indian cotton . In the ...
... manufacture of cotton , the fight was won . The Manchester spinners , however , used linen for their warp threads , for without machinery they could not spin threads sufficiently strong from the short - fibered Indian cotton . In the ...
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... manufacture the machines in New Haven , Whitney to give his time to the production , Miller to furnish the capital and attend to the firm's interests in the South . At the outset the partners blundered seriously in their plan for ...
... manufacture the machines in New Haven , Whitney to give his time to the production , Miller to furnish the capital and attend to the firm's interests in the South . At the outset the partners blundered seriously in their plan for ...
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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