Inventors

James M. Townsend, E.L. Drake, Alvan Clark, John Fitch, Oliver Evans, Amos Whittemore, Thomas Blanchard, Richard M. Hoe, Thomas W. Harvey, C.L. Sholes, B.B. Hotchkiss, Charles F. Brush, Rudolph Eickemeyer, George Westinghouse, Jr.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Benjamin Franklin, (Frontispiece.)

Departure of the Clermont on her First Voyage, 60

Charles Goodyear, 155

John Ericsson, 178

Cyrus Hall McCormick, 207

Thomas A. Edison, 223

Edison in his Laboratory, 247

Professor Bell Sending the First Telephone Message from New York to Chicago, 264

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

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The Franklin Stove, 10

Franklin's Birthplace, Boston, 14

Franklin Entering Philadelphia, 17

The Franklin Penny, 27

Franklin's Grave, 43

Robert Fulton, 46

Birthplace of Robert Fulton, 48

Fulton Blowing Up a Danish Brig, 53

John Fitch's Steamboat at Philadelphia, 56

Fulton's First Experiment with Paddle-wheels, 57

The "Demologos," or "Fulton the First," 65

The Clermont, 68

Eli Whitney, 70

Whitney Watching the Cotton-Gin, 75

The Cotton-Gin, 78

Elias Howe, 100

Birthplace of S.F.B. Morse, Built 1775, 111

S.F.B. Morse, 113

Under Side of a Modern Switchboard, showing 2,000 Wires, 121

The First Telegraph Instrument, as Exhibited in 1837 by Morse, 125

The Modern Morse Telegraph, 127

Morse Making his own Instrument, 129

Train Telegraph-the Message Transmitted by Induction from the Moving Train to the Single Wire, 131

Interior of a Car on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, showing the Method of Operating the Train Telegraph, 132

Diagram showing the Method of Telegraphing from a Moving Train by Induction, 134

Morse in his Study, 139

The Siphon Recorder for Receiving Cable Messages-Office of the Commercial Cable Company, 1 Broad Street, New York, 146

No. 5 West Twenty-second Street, New York, where Morse Lived for Many Years and Died, 151

Calenders Heated Internally by Steam, for Spreading India Rubber into Sheets or upon Cloth, called the "Chaffee Machine," 164

Charles Goodyear's Exhibition of Hard India-rubber Goods at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, England, 169

Council Medal of the Exhibition, 1851, 173

Grande Medaille d'Honneur, Exposition Universelle de 1855, 176

John Ericsson's Birthplace and Monument, 180

The Novelty Locomotive, built by Ericsson to compete with Stephenson's Rocket, 1829, 184

Ericsson on his Arrival in England, aged Twenty-three, 186

Mrs. John Ericsson, née Amelia Byam, 187

Exterior View of Ericsson's House, No. 36 Beach Street, New York, 1890, 189

Solar-engine Adapted to the Use of Hot Air, 191

Sectional View of Monitor through Turret and Pilot-house, 198

The Original Monitor, 199

Fac-simile of a Pencil Sketch by Ericsson giving a Transverse Section of his Original Monitor Plan, with a Longitudinal Section drawn over it, 201

Interior of the Destroyer, Looking toward the Bow, 202

Development of the Monitor Idea, 204

The Room in Which Ericsson Worked for More than Twenty Years, 206

Farm where Cyrus H. McCormick was Born and Raised, 209

Exterior of the Blacksmith Shop where the First Reaper was Built, 212

Interior of the Blacksmith Shop where the First Reaper was Built, 215

The First Reaper, 217

Edison's Paper Carbon Lamp, 224

Edison Listening to his Phonograph, 227

From Edison's Newspaper, the "Grand Trunk Herald," 230

Edison's Tinfoil Phonograph-the First Practical Machine, 237

Vote Recorder-Edison's First Patented Invention, 243

Edison's Menlo Park Electric Locomotive (1880), 250

The Home of Thomas A. Edison, 257

Edison's Laboratory, 258

Library at Edison's Laboratory, 262

Alvan Clark, 276