Mowry, William Augustus, 1829-1917, Mowry, Arthur May, 1862- joint author · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and company · leaf 152
achinewhich would separate theseed skillfully and rapidly,for, said she, Eli Whit-ney can make anything.When the workmen in the deep mines of England neededa safety lamp to shield them from the explosions of the damp,they applied to the great chemist, Sir Humphrey Davy, andhe invented one. So,… … A COTTON FIELD. ISO AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS. cotton seed which he had never seen from the raw cottonwhich also he had never seen? But Whitney was an in-ventor. Trifles must not stand in his way. He securedsamples of the cotton and the seed; even this was not aneasy thing to do, for it was…
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