The world: historical and actual . rimfield. Massachusetts,came two highly impor-tant contributions tomodern civilization, Fair-banks scales and Her-rings safes. The Fair-banks brothers, Thad-deus and Frastus, estab-lished their factory, how-ever, at St. Johnsbury,Vermont. Frastus wasgovernor of the slateat two widely differenttimes. The Americansafe has no equal any-where, and the Americanscales no competitors. In electricity thiscountry stands ; Morse made itour errand-boy; Gray, Belland Edison may be said tohave imparted to it the pow-er of speech. The lightning-rod robbe
The world: historical and actual . rimfield. Massachusetts,came two highly impor-tant contributions tomodern civilization, Fair-banks scales and Her-rings safes. The Fair-banks brothers, Thad-deus and Frastus, estab-lished their factory, how-ever, at St. Johnsbury,Vermont. Frastus wasgovernor of the slateat two widely differenttimes. The Americansafe has no equal any-where, and the Americanscales no competitors. In electricity thiscountry stands ; Morse made itour errand-boy; Gray, Belland Edison may be said tohave imparted to it the pow-er of speech. The lightning-rod robbed the thunderboltof its terrors ; the telegraphalmost annihilates distanceas a barrier to communica-tion, and the telephone trans-mits the voice itself. WithFranklin. Morse. Edison,Gray, and Boll ranks alsoCyrus W. Field, who. if hedid not invent submarinetelegraphy, achieved thatmarvel of all ages, the suc-cessful laving of a cableacross the Atlantic F. B. Morse was bom in Charlestown, Massachu- , out his patent in 1846,. Franklin tamed the
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