The world: historical and actual . <, S. F. B. MORSE. long residence. He was born in 1803. He mademany improvements in steamers and railway loco-motives, but his greatestachievements were may be said to have rev-olutionized the navies ofthe world. The ironcladswhich he invented and builtfor the United States navys. in the late war proved the^aP beginning of a radical^4 change in naval architect-ure. He is said to haverecently invented a new andalmost invulnerable war ship which is likely to effect still another rev-olution in thenavies of theworld. The bridgewhich spans theMississi
The world: historical and actual . <, S. F. B. MORSE. long residence. He was born in 1803. He mademany improvements in steamers and railway loco-motives, but his greatestachievements were may be said to have rev-olutionized the navies ofthe world. The ironcladswhich he invented and builtfor the United States navys. in the late war proved the^aP beginning of a radical^4 change in naval architect-ure. He is said to haverecently invented a new andalmost invulnerable war ship which is likely to effect still another rev-olution in thenavies of theworld. The bridgewhich spans theMississippi riverat St. Louis ispronounced bycompetent judg-es the grandeststructure in theworld of a strict-ly practical na-ture. It wasplanned andbuilt by JamesB. Eads, who was born in 1820, and who hadbeen second only to Ericsson in usefulness to the. ELIA3 HOWE. United States in naval construction from 1861 to1865. The St. Louis bridge has three spans, one is515, and the other two 497 feet, each. Its middlearch has only one companion piece of work, the oneof Kuilingburg, Holland. The boot crimper, in-vented by Moore iu 1812, proved a great help in themanufacture of boots, as did the pegging machineinvented by Gal-lahue in steam ham-mer dates from1838, ten yearsafter t lie planingmachine invent-ed by Wood-worth. Thefirst brass clockwas invented inAmerica byChauncey Je-rome, and prov-ed a benefit tothe entire civi-lized world. The inventiveEdison has expended a groat deal of time in solv-ing the Electric Light problem. Success has at lastbeen achieved. The great difficulties in the waywere threefold: first, division of the electric cur-rent ; second, safeguards against injury in the use ofelectricity for illumination; and third, cheapnessIt now remains only to introduce and perfect in de-tail what inventive genius has place
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