The world: historical and actual . Franklin tamed the. He was an artist and a lec-turer on the literatureof art. In 1832 he de-vised and put into prim-itive use the systemof telegraphy. Elevenyears later Congressmade an appropriationfor an experimentalline from Washingtonto Baltimore. The sameyear he suggests 1 amarine cable. He re-alized a fortune fromhis invention, and sur-vived to see a bronzestatue of himself erect-ed in Central York. He diedin 1872. We turn now to thesewing machine. Thatwas the invention ofElias Howe. Some ap-proaches were made tothe discovery of theprinciple of
The world: historical and actual . Franklin tamed the. He was an artist and a lec-turer on the literatureof art. In 1832 he de-vised and put into prim-itive use the systemof telegraphy. Elevenyears later Congressmade an appropriationfor an experimentalline from Washingtonto Baltimore. The sameyear he suggests 1 amarine cable. He re-alized a fortune fromhis invention, and sur-vived to see a bronzestatue of himself erect-ed in Central York. He diedin 1872. We turn now to thesewing machine. Thatwas the invention ofElias Howe. Some ap-proaches were made tothe discovery of theprinciple of this won-derful and revolution-iry piece of mechanism by Thomas Saint of En-gland in 1790, and Themon-nier of Paris in 1830, Adamsand Dodge of Vermont in1818, Greenough of NewYork in 1842, and WalterHunt in 1832-35, contributedto the invention. Howe doesnot appear to have had anyacquaintance with these ex-periments which hovoredupon the verge of was born in Spencer,Massachusetts, in 1819. Theuse of two threads, a shuttleami a curved needle
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