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 352
ield or gathered later. The reaper set up in the American section of theExposition was made by the Messrs. Case, of Wisconsin,and is the Gallic reaper; perfected, it is true, but based AMEEICAN EEAPERS. 347 on the same agricultural system pursued for ages insome portion of China, where they reap by… … REAPER IN GAUL. (A. D. 64.) We have carefully examined it in the shed wherethey have carefully hidden, along the Avenue Souffren,the magnificent American and English agricultural ma-chines, as if they did not merit a place in our exposition. We cannot, however, neglect rendering ourhomage to the…
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