. A history of the United States. ork of twenty men, cutting the grain, binding it,and laying it in windrows. The threshing machine was equally successful. In 1855 at the Worlds\M^ Fair in Paris, sLx threshers withflails were set atwork beside oneof the Americanmachines. In halfan hour the ma-chine threshed tentimes as muchwheat as the farm machinery increased the demand for western the line of settlement moved westward faster than for Other Work. — The settlement of the countrywas helped by the invention of other tools which were notconnected directly with farm w
. A history of the United States. ork of twenty men, cutting the grain, binding it,and laying it in windrows. The threshing machine was equally successful. In 1855 at the Worlds\M^ Fair in Paris, sLx threshers withflails were set atwork beside oneof the Americanmachines. In halfan hour the ma-chine threshed tentimes as muchwheat as the farm machinery increased the demand for western the line of settlement moved westward faster than for Other Work. — The settlement of the countrywas helped by the invention of other tools which were notconnected directly with farm work. The steam hammermade the tasks of the ironworker easier. The planing machineaided the carpenter. The rotary or cyhndrical press helpedthe printer. Some newspapers ventured to reduce the pricefrom 6 cents a paper to a cent, and declared that they wouldbring all the news of the day within the means of everybody.^The steam-engine suppHed them with power, and the tele-graph brought in fresh news, and so increased their useful-. The First T\pe of McCormick Reaper The New York Daily Sun, 1833. was the first penny newspaper. Two yearslater, James Gordon Bennett started another, the New York Herald. HoraceGreeley, in 1841, founded the New York Tribune; ten jears later Henry established the New York Times. The price of these was laterincreased to two cents. NEW INVENTIONS 369 ness as teachers of the people. The newspapers, in turn,made profitable work for the telegraph, and hastened itsextension throughout the country. THE
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