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 610
hinemanufactory failed. Then Howe went to Harvard andentered a machine shop, where, at the same time, therewas working his cousin, Nathaniel P. Banks, since amajor-general in the United States Army, and speakerof the House of Eepresentatives. Howe seems to havebeen of a migratory disposition, for… … ELIAS HOWE, JR. Howes conception. 607 a sewing-macliine. The time and origin of the concep-tion are thus narrated: In the year 1839, two men in Boston—one a me-chanic and the other a capitahst—were striving to pro-duce a knitting-machine, which proved to be a task be-yond their strength. When the…
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