. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . fic research, her sons have ever been remarkable for their adaptabilityin mechanical invention. Of the five great inventions which, more than any others, have contributed to thedevelopment of commerce and the comforts of the people, it is significant that four were, if not in all respects theoriginal conceptions of Massachusetts men, first made practically useful in Massachusetts, and, except in oneinstance, by Massachusetts men. Prof. S. F. B. Morse, a nat
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . fic research, her sons have ever been remarkable for their adaptabilityin mechanical invention. Of the five great inventions which, more than any others, have contributed to thedevelopment of commerce and the comforts of the people, it is significant that four were, if not in all respects theoriginal conceptions of Massachusetts men, first made practically useful in Massachusetts, and, except in oneinstance, by Massachusetts men. Prof. S. F. B. Morse, a native of Charlestown, was the first to operate the telegraphsuccessfully at a public trial; I,li Whitney, a native of Westborough, gave to the world the cotton-gin ; Elias Howe,who was born at Spencer, invented the sewing-machine; and from IJoston to Salem, in 1877, the first articulatingtelephone was tested successfully by Prof. A. G. Bell, a Scotchman, while Prof. Amos E. Dolbear, of Tufts College,at Medford, was a (lioneer in the earlv experiments. Another son of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin, born at MASSACHUSETTS OF TO-DAY. 19. EMANCIPATION STATUE.{Boston.) Boston, made valuable investigations into the nature of lightning. In the Massachusetts General Hospital, thediscovery of ether was first practically proved by William Thomas Green Morton, M. D. The first railroad inAmerica was operated at t^uincy, in 1826. Erastus B. Bigelow, born at \\est Boylston, invented, in 1839, a carpetloom, whose usefulness revolutionized the manufacture of carpets throughout the world. Many of what are nowimmense manufacturing enterprises sprang from humble beginningson Massachusetts soil. Bricks were made at Salem the year fol-lowing its settlement; the first cotton mill was built at Beverly in1787; the first mill in the world capable of producing a finishedcloth from the raw material was established at \Valtham. In 1790,at Newburyport, Jacob Perkins set up a machine for cutting andheading t
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