. A history of Vermont, with the state constitution, geological and geographical notes, bibliography, chronology, statistical tables, maps, and illustrations. 1848. Vermont inventiveness deserves a tribute all the moresince it has not always exacted tribute or invention of the steamboat has already beenmentioned. But the use of electricity as a movingprinciple in machinerywas demonstrated byThomas Davenport tobe practicable half acentury before the worldwas ready for the dis-covery. The electricmotor, the electric tele-graph, the electric loco-motive, and the electricpiano w
. A history of Vermont, with the state constitution, geological and geographical notes, bibliography, chronology, statistical tables, maps, and illustrations. 1848. Vermont inventiveness deserves a tribute all the moresince it has not always exacted tribute or invention of the steamboat has already beenmentioned. But the use of electricity as a movingprinciple in machinerywas demonstrated byThomas Davenport tobe practicable half acentury before the worldwas ready for the dis-covery. The electricmotor, the electric tele-graph, the electric loco-motive, and the electricpiano were products ofhis brain. ProfessorAlonzo Jackman of Nor-wich University conceived the feasibility of the subma-rine cable in 1842. Phineas Bailey of Chelsea deviseda phonetic method of shorthand in 1819 — eighteenyears before Pitmans. The six-shooting revolver wasinvented at Brattleboro fourteen years before Coltsweapon was made. Last but not least in its beneficentinfluence comes the modern cook stove, the creation ofP. P. Stewart of Pawlet. These inventions, like the new order of manufacturingestablishments, were not for local needs. They appealed. Chester A. Arthur 226 HISTORY OF VERMONT for wider application. Thanks to developed transporta-tion and the rapid transmission of news, Vermont hadgot in touch with wider needs ; she had gone out to seekthe markets of the world. £. Education The work of education in the state went on quietly,unobtrusively, attracting no great attention, heralding nostartling results; yet there were men here who were ina sense educational prophets, for they laid the founda-tion in a humble, inconspicuous way for some of the mostimportant developments of our American educationalideals. Transition in educational aims and methods con-sisted of development rather than change up to the timeof the Civil War. The results of this work may be briefly summed upas follows: The beginning of some educational systemfor the state, including supervision ; the t
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