Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 307
people to abandon the old blunt-endedscrew that we now occasionally find in build-ings put up before 1850. Harvey was a Vermontboy, born in 1795. His faculty for the inventionof machinery for screw-making and other pur-poses gave him and his associates and successors—Angell, Sloan, and… … provement upon the pen as the sewing-machineis upon the needle. So long- ago as 1843 somepatents were taken out for divers forms of writ-ing-machines, ail more or !ess impracticable. Itwas not until C. L. Sholes, then of Wisconsin, PAST AND PRESENT 287 took up the problem, in 1866, that the…
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