Eminent engineers; brief biographies of thirty-two of the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress (1906)
Goddard, Dwight, 1861-1939 · New York, The Derry-Collard company · leaf 80
compara-tive wealth. He was able before he died to fulfill an asser-tion made to the villagers of West Millbury, when in ex-treme poverty and youthful awkwardness he was railedagainst for his shiftlessness, that he would yet drive upthrough here in a coach and four. He died in 1864, leaving a… … Eiias Howe Portrait through kindness of JV. S>. Heffernan, Spencer^ Mass, 78 Elias Howe,^ ^ ^ Unlike many of the great inventors, Elias Howe isidentified with only one invention, the sewing machine. He was born in Spencer, Mass., 1819. His fatherwas a farmer, who had a small mill for grinding…
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