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American inventions and inventors (1900)

Mowry, William Augustus, 1829-1917, Mowry, Arthur May, 1862- joint author · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and company · leaf 181

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n order to keep her little ones prop-erly clad. Now, with the little iron machine standing uponits small table on one side of the room, the good mother canmake up the necessary garments for her children in quicktime, leaving her far more hours for sleep, recreation, andsocial life than would be… … THE STEAM ENGINE. At the very summit of a mountain near Pasadena, Cali-fornia, stands a huge windmill, which may be seen for manymiles in all directions. Here the wind blows almost con-stantly, and the great arms of the windmill are employed to lift water from a well inthe valley below to irri-gate…

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