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Elias Howe, Sewing Machine

A most ingenious piece of mechanism lies lately been made known to the public in...

The Daguerreotype: Periscopic Lens
This beautiful instrument, destined, ultimately, we believe, to be the companion of every man of...
The effect of Whitney's Cotton-Gin on the Cotton Husbandry of the United States
In 1793, the year of the invention, the whole cotton crop of the United States...
PHILOSOPHY IN AN EGGSHELL
A correspondent recently asked you the reason why sugar strikes fire when two lumps are...

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Daniel Shays

was an American soldier, revolutionary, and farmer. Daniel was famous for being one of the...

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton