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... tion possible , no future opened for him in London , and he accepted an offer to return to Philadelphia with employment as a clerk . But early in 1727 his employer died , and Benjamin went back to his trade , as printers always do . He ...
... tion possible , no future opened for him in London , and he accepted an offer to return to Philadelphia with employment as a clerk . But early in 1727 his employer died , and Benjamin went back to his trade , as printers always do . He ...
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... tion . The same letter tells of some of the tricks which the little group of experimenters were accus- tomed to play upon their wondering neighbors . They set alcohol on fire , relighted candles just blown out , produced mimic flashes ...
... tion . The same letter tells of some of the tricks which the little group of experimenters were accus- tomed to play upon their wondering neighbors . They set alcohol on fire , relighted candles just blown out , produced mimic flashes ...
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... tion of the United States . There he spoke seldom but always to the point , and the Constitution is the better for his suggestions . With pride he affixed his signature to that great instrument , as he had previously signed the Albany ...
... tion of the United States . There he spoke seldom but always to the point , and the Constitution is the better for his suggestions . With pride he affixed his signature to that great instrument , as he had previously signed the Albany ...
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... tion would cause a veritable industrial revolution , or that the system they planned , if it could be made effective , would make them absolute masters of the cotton country , with the most stupendous monopoly in the world . Nor do they ...
... tion would cause a veritable industrial revolution , or that the system they planned , if it could be made effective , would make them absolute masters of the cotton country , with the most stupendous monopoly in the world . Nor do they ...
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... followed on the inven- tion of the cotton gin . In 1793 slavery seemed a I Roe , English and American Tool Builders , pp . 150–51 . dying institution , North and South . Conditions of soil ELI WHITNEY AND THE COTTON GIN 49.
... followed on the inven- tion of the cotton gin . In 1793 slavery seemed a I Roe , English and American Tool Builders , pp . 150–51 . dying institution , North and South . Conditions of soil ELI WHITNEY AND THE COTTON GIN 49.
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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