History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . The Great Eastern Laying the Atlantic Cable. tion had been actually opened, the cabledid not work, nor did ocean cabling becomea successful and regular business till 1866,when a new cable was laid. This eventattracted the more attention from the factthat the largest ship ever built was used in i860] MATERIAL PROGRESS 283 paying out the cable. It was the GreatEastern, 680 feet long and 83 broad, with25,000 tons displacement. Street railways became common in our. Soundhg Machine used by a CabJe Expedition, l
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . The Great Eastern Laying the Atlantic Cable. tion had been actually opened, the cabledid not work, nor did ocean cabling becomea successful and regular business till 1866,when a new cable was laid. This eventattracted the more attention from the factthat the largest ship ever built was used in i860] MATERIAL PROGRESS 283 paying out the cable. It was the GreatEastern, 680 feet long and 83 broad, with25,000 tons displacement. Street railways became common in our. Soundhg Machine used by a CabJe Expedition, largest cities before i860, thp first in NewEngland, that between Boston and Cam-bridge, dating from 1856. Sleeping-carsbegan to be used in 1858. The expressbusiness went on developing, being openedwestward from Buffalo first in 1845. A z84 THE YEARS OF SLAVERY [i860 Steam fire-engine was tried in New Yorkin 1841, but the invention was successfulonly in 1853. Baltimore used one in triumphantly vulcanized rubberin 1844, making serviceable a gum whichhad been used in various forms already butwithout ability to stand heat. Elias Howetook out his first patent for a sewing ma-chine in 1846, being kept in vigorous fightagainst infringements for the next eightyears. The anaesthetic power of ether wasdiscovered in 1844. Gutta-percha was firstimported hither In 1847. The first applica-tion of the Bessemer steel process in thiscountry was made in New Jersey in 1856,the manufacture of watches by machinerybegun in 1857, photo-lithography i
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