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o Dwight Goddard; 〃A Short Story of Eli Whitney〃 (1904); D。 A。 Tompkins; 〃Cotton and Cotton Oil〃 (1901); James A。 B。 Scherer; 〃Cotton as a World Power〃 (1916); E。 C。 Bates; 〃The Story of the Cotton Gin〃 (1899); reprinted from 〃The New England Magazine〃; May; 1890; and Eugene Clyde Brooks; 〃The Story of Cotton and the Development of the Cotton States〃 (1911)。

CHAPTER III

For an account of James Watt's achievements; see J。 Cleland; 〃Historical Account of the Steam Engine〃 (1825) and John W。 Grant; 〃Watt and the Steam Age〃 (1917)。 On Fulton: R。 H。 Thurston; 〃Robert Fulton〃 (1891) in the 〃Makers of America〃 series; A。 C。 Sutcliffe; 〃Robert Fulton and the 'Clermont'〃 (1909); H。 W。 Dickinson; 〃Robert Fulton; Engineer and Artist; His Life and Works〃 (1913)。 For an account of John Stevens; see George Iles; 〃Leading American Inventors〃 (1912); and Dwight Goddard; 〃A Short Story of John Stevens and His Sons in Eminent Engineers〃 (1905)。 See also John Stevens; 〃Documents Tending to Prove the Superior Advantages of Rail…Ways and Steam…Carriages over Canal Navigation〃 (1819。); reprinted in 〃The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries〃; Extra Number 54 (1917)。 On Evans: 〃Oliver Evans and His Inventions;〃 by Coleman Sellers; in 〃The Journal of the Franklin Institute〃; July; 1886; vol。 CXXII。

CHAPTER IV

On the general subject of cotton manufacture and machinery; see: J。 L。 Bishop; 〃History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860〃; 3 vols。 (1864…67); Samuel Batchelder; 〃Introduction and Early Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in the United States〃 (1863); James Montgomery; 〃A Practical Detail of the Cotton Manufacture of the United States of America〃 (1840); Melvin T。 Copeland; 〃The Cotton Manufacturing Industry of the United States〃 (1912); and John L。 Hayes; 〃American Textile Machinery〃 (1879)。 Harriet H。 Robinson; 〃Loom and Spindle〃 (1898); is a description of the life of girl workers in the early factories written by one of them。 Charles Dickens; 〃American Notes〃; Chapter IV; is a vivid account of the life in the Lowell mills。 See also Nathan Appleton; 〃Introduction of the Power Loom and Origin of Lowell〃 (1858); H。 A。 Miles; 〃Lowell; as It Was; and as It Is〃 (1845); and G。 S。 White; 〃Memoir of Samuel Slater〃 (1836)。 On Elias Howe; see Dwight Goddard; 〃A Short Story of Elias Howe in Eminent Engineers〃 (1905)。

CHAPTER V

The story of the reaper is told in: Herbert N。 Casson; 〃Cyrus Hall McCormick; His Life and Work〃 (1909); and 〃The Romance of the Reaper〃 (1908); and Merritt F。 Miller; 〃Evolution of Reaping Machines〃 (1902); U。 S。 Experiment Stations Office; Bulletin 103。 Other farm inventions are covered in: William Macdonald; 〃Makers of Modern Agriculture〃 (1913); Emile Guarini; 〃The Use of Electric Power in Plowing〃 in The 〃Electrical Review〃; vol。 XLIII; A。 P。 Yerkes; 〃The Gas Tractor in Eastern Farming〃 (1918); U。 S。 Department of Agriculture; Farmer's Bulletin 1004; and Herbert N。 Casson and others; 〃Horse; Truck and Tractor; the Coming of Cheaper Power for City and Farm〃 (1913)。

CHAPTER VI

An account of an early 〃agent of communication〃 is given by W。 F。 Bailey; article on the 〃Pony Express〃 in 〃The Century Magazine〃; vol。 XXXIV (1898)。 For the story of the telegraph and its inventors; see: S。 I。 Prime; 〃Life of Samuel F。 B。 Morse〃 (1875); S。 F。 B。 Morse; 〃The Electro…Magnetic Telegraph〃 (1858) and 〃Examination of the Telegraphic Apparatus and the Process in Telegraphy〃 (1869); Guglielmo Marconi; 〃The Progress of Wireless Telegraphy〃 (1912) in the 〃Transactions of the New York Electrical Society〃; no。 15; and Ray Stannard Baker; 〃Marconi's Achievement〃 in McClure's Magazine; vol。 XVIII (1902)。 On the telephone; see Herbert N。 Casson; 〃History of the Telephone〃 (1910); and Alexander Graham Bell; 〃The Telephone〃 (1878)。 On the cable: Charles Bright; 〃The Story of the Atlantic Cable〃 (1903)。 For facts in the history of printing and descriptions of printing machines; see: Edmund G。 Gress; 〃American Handbook of Printing〃 (1907); Robert Hoe; 〃A Short History of the Printing Press and of the Improvements in Printing Machinery〃 (1902); and Otto Schoenrich; 〃Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler and History of the Linotype〃 (1898); written under Mr。 Mergenthaler's direction。 On the best…known New York newspapers; see: H。 Hapgood and A。 B。 Maurice; 〃The Great Newspapers of the United States; the New York Newspapers;〃 in 〃The Bookman〃; vols。 XIV and XV (1902)。 On the typewriter; see Charles Edward Weller; 〃The Early History of the Typewriter〃 (1918)。 On the camera; Paul Lewis Anderson; 〃The Story of Photography〃 (1918) in 〃The Mentor〃; vol。 vi; no。 19。; and on the motion picture; Colin N。 Bennett; 〃The Handbook of Kinematography〃; 〃The History; Theory and Practice of Motion Photography and Projection〃; London: 〃Kinematograph Weekly〃 (1911)。

CHAPTER VII

For information on the subject of rubber and the life of Charles Goodyear; see: H。 Wickham; 〃On the Plantation; Cultivation and Curing of Para Indian Rubber〃; London (1908); Francis Ernest Lloyd; 〃Guayule; a Rubber Plant of the Chihuahuan Desert〃; Washington (1911); Carnegie Institute publication no。 139; Charles Goodyear; 〃Gum Elastic and Its Varieties〃 (1853) ; James Parton; 〃Famous Americans of Recent Times〃 (1867); and 〃The Rubber Industry; Being the Official Report of the Proceedings of the International Rubber Congress〃 (London; 1911); edited by Joseph Torey and A。 Staines Manders。

CHAPTER VIII

J。 W。 Roe; 〃English and American Tool Builders〃 (1916); and J。 V。 Woodworth; 〃American Tool Making and Interchangeable Manufacturing〃 (1911); give general accounts of great American mechanics。

For an account of John Stevens and Robert L。 and E。 A。 Stevens; see George Iles; 〃Leading American Inventors〃 (1912); Dwight Goddard; 〃A Short Story of John Stevens and His Sons〃 in 〃Eminent Engineers〃 (1905); and R。 H。 Thurston; 〃The Messrs。 Stevens; of Hoboken; as Engineers; Naval Architects and Philanthropists〃 (1874); 〃Journal of the Franklin Institute〃; October; 1874。 For Whitney's contribution to machine shop methods; see Olmsted's 〃Memoir〃 already cited and Roe and Woodworth; already cited。 For Blanchard; see Dwight Goddard; 〃A Short Story of Thomas Blanchard〃 in 〃Eminent Engineers〃 (1905); and for Samuel Colt; see his own 〃On the Application of Machinery to the Manufacture of Rotating Chambered…Breech Fire Arms; and Their Peculiarities〃 (1855); an excerpt from the 〃Minutes of Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers〃; vol。 XI (1853); and Henry Barnard; 〃Armsmear; the Home; the Arm; and the Armory of Samuel Colt〃 (1866)。 

CHAPTER IX

〃The Story of Electricity〃 (1919) is a popular history edited by T。 C。 Martin and S。 L。 Coles。 A more specialized account of electrical inventions may be found in George Bartlett Prescott's 〃The Speaking Telephone; Electric Light; and Other Recent Electrical Inventions〃 (1879)。

For Joseph Henry's achievements; see his own 〃Contributions to Electricity and Galvanism〃 (1835…42) and 〃On the Application of the Principle of the Galvanic Multiplier to Electromagnetic Apparatus〃 (1831); and the accounts of others in Henry C。 Cameron's 〃Reminiscences of Joseph Henry〃 and W。 B。 Taylor's 〃Historical Sketch of Henry's Contribution to t
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