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Leading American inventors (1912)

Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York : Henry Holt and company · leaf 402

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Why was thisstitcher, so ingenious and efficient, allowed to fall into thisneglect ? Simply because its inventor offered people a goodthing before they were ready for it. Let us be just to the British folk of the time of ThomasSaint. They lived in what was still the day of tools,while we live in… … (From the painting: by Joseph Eliot, owned by the late Mrs. Jane R. Cald.well, New York, daughter of Klias Howe.] ELIAS HOWE 339

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