A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . 1 Mile .M;i 66° 30 I Greenwich on 0 o c E A N .t- .0? 4* ^ in era x1o\pawimtnVs Faja rdo Port M,,lm MuriI^ O- 18J~ 18. ^^ (X> !. IS30. 0 10 Ij 20 Explanation.»OADS-ROAD -igrht 1902 by J. B. Lippincott Companr ISLANDS EAST OFPORTO RICO Same Scale aa Large Map dofSO C ( ION CNCftS. BOtTOH -18 THE NATION OF TO-DAY. 547 Inventions.—The immense progress which the UnitedStates has made in ahiiost all directions within a centuryhas been greatly aided
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . 1 Mile .M;i 66° 30 I Greenwich on 0 o c E A N .t- .0? 4* ^ in era x1o\pawimtnVs Faja rdo Port M,,lm MuriI^ O- 18J~ 18. ^^ (X> !. IS30. 0 10 Ij 20 Explanation.»OADS-ROAD -igrht 1902 by J. B. Lippincott Companr ISLANDS EAST OFPORTO RICO Same Scale aa Large Map dofSO C ( ION CNCftS. BOtTOH -18 THE NATION OF TO-DAY. 547 Inventions.—The immense progress which the UnitedStates has made in ahiiost all directions within a centuryhas been greatly aided by the inventive genius of the people,whose ability in this direction no other country the formation of the United States more than a mil-lion patents have been issued for new inventions and de-signs, about 940,000 of them since 1871, and patents arenow being issued at the rate of nearly forty thousand yearly. Many of these are of slight importance, buL others haveproved of the utmost utility. The cotton-gin, the steam-boat, and the telegraph have been mentioned. They includealso the reaping-machine, the sewing-machine, the vulcan-izing of rubber, the cylinder printing-press, the electriclight, the trolley car, the telephone, the phonograph, thetype-wri
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