New school history of the United States . e these inventions that they can-not be enumerated. Among the most notable, originated, ormuch improved by American talent, since the surrender ofYorktown, are : steam navigation on river and sea; weathercharts and forecasts ; charts of ocean depths and currents, and one-half miles. All the railroads of Europe reach only one hundred thousandnine hundred and twenty miles. * The telephone is a contrivance for conveying- sounds and words to a distance bymeans of electricity. Edisons phonograph is an instrument for recording and pre-serving sounds, notes,
New school history of the United States . e these inventions that they can-not be enumerated. Among the most notable, originated, ormuch improved by American talent, since the surrender ofYorktown, are : steam navigation on river and sea; weathercharts and forecasts ; charts of ocean depths and currents, and one-half miles. All the railroads of Europe reach only one hundred thousandnine hundred and twenty miles. * The telephone is a contrivance for conveying- sounds and words to a distance bymeans of electricity. Edisons phonograph is an instrument for recording and pre-serving sounds, notes, and words, and for reproducing them at any distance of time. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, with the deep-sea sounding line ; the reaping and mowingmachine, and multitudes of other agricultural implements ;the magnetic telegraph, the telephone and the phonograph ;the sewing and the knitting machine ; bank-note engraving;the repeating rifle and pistol ; the Ericsson hot-air engine ;the sand blast, and sulphuric ether. To these may be added. MODERN REAPING-MACHINE. wooden clocks, machine-made watches, and the machinery formaking them ; with the wonderful variety of India-rubber andgutta-percha applications. EDUCATION. i6i. The wide diffusion of education among the peo-ple may, in part, explain this aptitude for invention, and forimprovement upon the inventions of others. From an earlyperiod, education, of the higher and the lower grades, at-tracted the attention of the colonists, especially in New Eng-land. There were not more than half a dozen colleges pre-vious to the Revolution. There are now three hundred andsixty-four. Common schools are now established through-out the country. They provide every one, without regard to EDUCA TION AND PRINTING. 295 color, sex, or condition, opportunities of freely pursuing theroyal road to learning. In the ample provision for general in-struction, the United States, or many of them, long anticipatedPrussia, France, and the best educated countr
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