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... young Benjamin , at the age of thirteen , was bound over by law to serve his brother . James Franklin printed the New England Cour- ant , the fourth newspaper to be established in the colonies . Benjamin soon began to write articles for ...
... young Benjamin , at the age of thirteen , was bound over by law to serve his brother . James Franklin printed the New England Cour- ant , the fourth newspaper to be established in the colonies . Benjamin soon began to write articles for ...
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... young printer soon attracted the notice of Sir William Keith , Governor of Pennsylvania , who promised to set him up in business . First , however , he must go to London to buy a printing outfit . On the Governor's promise to send a ...
... young printer soon attracted the notice of Sir William Keith , Governor of Pennsylvania , who promised to set him up in business . First , however , he must go to London to buy a printing outfit . On the Governor's promise to send a ...
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... young steam engine of James Watt and he had heard of a marvelous series of British inventions for spinning and weaving . He saw that his own countrymen were astir , trying to substitute the power of steam for the strength of muscles and ...
... young steam engine of James Watt and he had heard of a marvelous series of British inventions for spinning and weaving . He saw that his own countrymen were astir , trying to substitute the power of steam for the strength of muscles and ...
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... affect generations then unborn . This was a machine for cleaning cotton and it was of- fered by a young Yankee schoolmaster , temporarily sojourning in the South . + CHAPTER II ELI WHITNEY AND THE COTTON GIN THE FRANKLIN AND HIS TIMES 31.
... affect generations then unborn . This was a machine for cleaning cotton and it was of- fered by a young Yankee schoolmaster , temporarily sojourning in the South . + CHAPTER II ELI WHITNEY AND THE COTTON GIN THE FRANKLIN AND HIS TIMES 31.
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... young Eli displayed a passion for tools almost as soon as he could walk , that he made a violin at the age of twelve and about the same time took his father's watch to pieces surrepti- tiously and succeeded in putting it together again ...
... young Eli displayed a passion for tools almost as soon as he could walk , that he made a violin at the age of twelve and about the same time took his father's watch to pieces surrepti- tiously and succeeded in putting it together again ...
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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