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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 260

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ranch of our nationalindustry a development which has been the wonder andthe admiration of the world. This remarkable progressis, of course, also to be largely ascribed to the inventionof the steam-engine. * In order to give all the credit due under the circum-stances, it is but proper to add that… … Higley. That . Crompton did make some valuableimprovements in the spinning-machine may be fairly 256 THE SPINNING-WHEEL, LOOM, ETC. allowed; lie took the macliiiies of Arkwright and Har-greaves, and eliminated some of their faults, for whichhe was rewarded with a pension of twenty-five…

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