Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ine. In 1815 he introduced the steam blast into his second 1822 he built and operated his first railway, eight miles long. In 1829his engine, named the Rocket, was driven at the rate of twenty-nine miles anhour. He invented a safety lamp, which is still in use in English collieries.
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ine. In 1815 he introduced the steam blast into his second 1822 he built and operated his first railway, eight miles long. In 1829his engine, named the Rocket, was driven at the rate of twenty-nine miles anhour. He invented a safety lamp, which is still in use in English natural genius and self-taught mechanic, he refused knighthood, but hasreceived by common consent the title of the father of railways. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. 1P0CH-MAKERS OF THE CENTURY 713 Richard M. Hoe (b. September 12, 1812; d. June 7,1886) completely revo-lutionized the art of printing by the invention of his lightning rotarypress, in 1846. This marvel was capable of printing 20,000 impressions anhour. After many costly experiments, with a view to printing both sides ofa sheet at once, he evolved his web-perfecting press, which drew the paperfrom a roll, perhaps miles in length, at the rate of 1000 feet a minute,printed both sides simultaneously, and cut and folded the sheets at the rate. CLARA BARTON. of 20,000 per hour. Subsequent improvements have given his machines amuch larger hourly capacity. Elias Howe (b. June 9, 1819; d. October 3, 1867) contributed the sewing-machine to the centurys triumphs and wonders, though it is alleged that thehonor of inventing both the eye-pointed needle and the lock-stitch belongsto Walter Hunt, between whom and Howe long litigation prevailed, finallyresulting in the recognitiou of the 1846 patent of the latter. Modificationsand improvements by more recent inventors have made the sewing-machinethe household boon of to-day. Cyrus W. Field (b. November 30, 1819; d. July 12, 1892) made the pro-blem of a telegraphic cable across the Atlanti
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