The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 108
39. In1709, a press was put up at New London, Connecticut;at Annapolis, in 1726; at Wilhamsburg, Virginia, 1729;at Charleston, South Carolina, 1730; at Newport, EhodeIsland, 1732; at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1751; at Wood-bridge, New Jersey, 1752; Newborn, North Carolina,1755; Portsmouth, New… … CHAPTEE YIII. THE MAKINERS COMPASS. THE fifteenth century is a grand one in that it saw therenaissance of the human race, of that portion of itwhich has since become the abode of civihzation. Itgave the world artists whose works have never been ex-celled ; it gave us printing, and it gave us the…
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