Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics : together with a collection of anecdotes ... relating to the mechanic arts : illustrated by fifty engravings (1852)
Howe, Henry, 1816-1893, New York Museum of Science and Industry. Library · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 110
hurch. As soon as thefamily were out of sight, he flew to the room where the watchhung, and taking it down, he was so delighted with its motions,that he took it to pieces before he thought of the consequences ofhis rash deed ; for his father was a stern parent, and punishmentwould have been the… … BIRTH-PLACE OF WHITNEY, WESTBOROUGH, MASS. 6* ELI WHITNEY 105 Whitney lost his mother at an early age, and when he was thir-teen years old, his father married a second time. His step-mo-ther, among her articles of furniture, had a handsome set of tableknives, that she valued very highly; which our…
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