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Leading American inventors (1912)

Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 429

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wells home in theBorough of the Bronx, ten miles from the City Hall of NewYork. By her courtesy this portrait has been reproducedfor these pages. Mrs. Caldwell remembered how her fatherwas wont to go about his house all day with a shuttle in hishand, thinking about new tension devices and the like.… … idAo. vlXti/b** [From Photograph by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia.] BENJAMIN C. TILGHMAN A small group of inventors, high in rank, have beeneducated men who have pioneered new paths in response toan instinct, rather than as a matter of professional questwith gain as its goal. A thoroughly equipped…

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