American inventions and inventors . sion a beautiful piece of whitelinen, woven upon the farmwhere he was born, fromthread which was spun fromflax raised upon the samefarm. The flax wheel andthe loom were also made bythe father of the family. If you could look into thatold kitchen what a sight youwould see! How quaint itwould appear to each one ofyou ! The kitchen makes anell to the main house. This ell was an old house, built more than a century and a halfago, and moved up to the new house for a kitchen. In onecorner stands the large spinning wheel; near it is the smallerflax wheel; in anothe
American inventions and inventors . sion a beautiful piece of whitelinen, woven upon the farmwhere he was born, fromthread which was spun fromflax raised upon the samefarm. The flax wheel andthe loom were also made bythe father of the family. If you could look into thatold kitchen what a sight youwould see! How quaint itwould appear to each one ofyou ! The kitchen makes anell to the main house. This ell was an old house, built more than a century and a halfago, and moved up to the new house for a kitchen. In onecorner stands the large spinning wheel; near it is the smallerflax wheel; in another corner stands the great wooden loomwith its huge beam for the warp and its shuttle which must bethrown back and forth by hand. No carpet, not even an oil-cloth, is upon the floor, which is covered with pure whitesand. It would seem very strange to us if we were obliged tolive surrounded by these primitive conditions. How muchstranger would it appear to those who lived at that day ifthey could witness the improvements of our time!. AN OLD-FASHIONED LOOM. CHAPTER COTTON GIN. In the quiet times that followed the French and IndianWar, two years after the Treaty of 1763, Eli Whitney wasborn in Worcester County in Massachusetts. During theRevolutionary War he was busy making nails by hand, theonly way in which nails were made in those days. He earnedmoney enough by this industry and by teaching school to payhis way through college. But it was a slow process, and hewas nearly twenty-seven years of age when he was gradu-ated at Yale. Immediately upon his graduation he went toGeorgia,—a long distance from home in those days,—havingmade an engagement to become a private tutor in a wealthyfamily of that State. On his arrival he found that the manwho had engaged his services, unmindful of the contract, hadfilled the position with another tutor. The widow of the famous Gen. Nathaniel Greene had abeautiful home at Mulberry Grove, on the Savannah Greene invited young W
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