Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 344
rsey. Aswe shall see, the patents to Cyrus Hall McCormick and tohis chief rival, Obed Hussey, were issued respectively twoand three years later. When the Bell machine underwent its original test, JamesSlight was curator of the Highland and Agricultural So-ciety, under whose auspices the test took… … 292 LEADING AMERICAN INVENTORS of them at work, all giving satisfaction. They were manu-factured in Dundee, and thence found their way throughoutthe country. Four of them went to the United States ofAmerica. This renders it highly probable that they becamethe models from which the many so-called…
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