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Identifier: livesofpresident00abbottj (find matches)
Title: Lives of the presidents of the United States of America, from Washington to the present time ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877 Conwell, Russell Herman, 1843-1925, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: Presidents
Publisher: Portland, Me., H. Hallett and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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^ regarded as anAmerican invention, with which the name of Elias Howe isindissolubly associated. Two thousand patents for sewing-machines have been granted in the United States. The success of the sewing-machine is to be dated from aboutthe year 1850. It is estimated that forty milHons of capital arenow employed in their manufacture. In the year 1873, sixhundred thousand machines were made and sold. They are nowfound in almost every dwelling. As to manufactures in general, there is no array of figureswhich can convey to the reader an adequate idea of theirgrowth in our country within the last century. In 1790, it was estimated that the annual value of the manu-factures of the United States amounted to twenty million dol-lars. According to the last census, it is estimated, that the valueof the manufactures for 1870 amounted to the sum, above finitecomprehension, of four thousand eight hundred and tliirty-nine * First Century of the Republic. Harpers Magazine, No. 298, p. 540.
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o86 ONE HUNDRED TEARS PROGRESS. million dollars, involving an outlay of capital of two thousandone hundred and eighteen million, two hundred and eight thou-sand dollars. Over two and a half million persons, of twenty years of ageand upward, were employed in these manufactures. A littleover five million were engaged in agriculture, and about onemillion in trade.* Since the days when an electric current was first used to trans-mit telegraphic messages, great discoveries have been made inregard to currents of electricity. The speaking telephone com-bines in its properties a number of very interesting scientificfacts. By this instrument the exact words, tone, and pitch ofthe human voice and all other sounds may be reproduced at adistance, so as to be perfectly understood. The essential princi-ple is a small iron plate which vibrates with the sound, and thesevibrations are conducted by an electric current, and reproducedat the other end of the line by means of another iron plate,which vibr

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Identifier: livesofpresident00abbottj (find matches) Title: Lives of the presidents of the United States of America, from Washington to the present time .. Year: 1882 (1880s) Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877 Conwell, Russell Herman, 1843-1925, (from old catalog) joint author Subjects: Presidents Publisher: Portland, Me., H. Hallett and company Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ^ regarded as anAmerican invention, with which the name of Elias Howe isindissolubly associated. Two thousand patents for sewing-machines have been granted in the United States. The success of the sewing-machine is to be dated from aboutthe year 1850. It is estimated that forty milHons of capital arenow employed in their manufacture. In the year 1873, sixhundred thousand machines were made and sold. They are nowfound in almost every dwelling. As to manufactures in general, there is no array of figureswhich can convey to the reader an adequate idea of theirgrowth in our country within the last century. In 1790, it was estimated that the annual value of the manu-factures of the United States amounted to twenty million dol-lars. According to the last census, it is estimated, that the valueof the manufactures for 1870 amounted to the sum, above finitecomprehension, of four thousand eight hundred and tliirty-nine * First Century of the Republic. Harpers Magazine, No. 298, p. 540. Text Appearing After Image: o86 ONE HUNDRED TEARS PROGRESS. million dollars, involving an outlay of capital of two thousandone hundred and eighteen million, two hundred and eight thou-sand dollars. Over two and a half million persons, of twenty years of ageand upward, were employed in these manufactures. A li

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