. A history of the United States. Copy of The Sun — a Penny Newspaper The sewing machine, one of the most useful of the newerinventions, was completed by Elias Howe in 1846. He hadplanned it several years earlier, but was too poor to pay thecost of construction. His first machine in a sewing racedistanced five of the swiftest hand sewers. It earned hima fortune and lightened the burden of women. The prin-ciple of the sewing machine was soon used in constructingmachines for sewing leather and making shoes. Machineswere also invented which cut andsewed button-holes. Other inventions, cook stoves
. A history of the United States. Copy of The Sun — a Penny Newspaper The sewing machine, one of the most useful of the newerinventions, was completed by Elias Howe in 1846. He hadplanned it several years earlier, but was too poor to pay thecost of construction. His first machine in a sewing racedistanced five of the swiftest hand sewers. It earned hima fortune and lightened the burden of women. The prin-ciple of the sewing machine was soon used in constructingmachines for sewing leather and making shoes. Machineswere also invented which cut andsewed button-holes. Other inventions, cook stoves, base-burners, and furnaces, made the homemore comfortable and the work of thehousewife easier. Americans borrowedfrom Europe the invention of thematch. In a multitude of ways theneeds of life were met by the ingenu-ity of thoughtful men and 23,000 different articles were patented between 1850and i860. Why the Immigrants Came. — The ways of living in Europeand Great Britain were changed as rapidly as in the United. Howes SewingMachine 370 DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW DOMAIN States. Indeed, in England the factory system developedmuch faster. Railroads were multiplied. Life for the well-to-do became more comfortable, but for the common manand his family the lands of opportunity lay beyond the were not the United States merely, but also Canada,AustraUa, and South Africa. The United States proved farmore attractive to the European emigrant than all the othercountries together. Between 1845 and 1850 several events swelled the streamof emigration. In 1845 and 1846 the failures of crops causedmuch distress in Great Britain and Europe. The potatocrop, the principal article of food of the Irish peasantry, wasa total failure. All that private charity and governmenthelp could do was not enough to prevent terrible a million persons perished from starvation or government repealed the corn laws which taxedgrain, but this remedy came too late. Th
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