_Fascines_, bundles of rods or of small sticks of wood, bound at both ends and at intermediate points, used in filling ditches, etc.
Give the names of some distinguished American inventors.
Eli Whitney, the inventor of the Cotton Gin, born in Westborough, Mass., 1765; died 1825. Jethro Wood, the inventor of the modern cast-iron plow, born at White Creek, N.Y., 1774; died 1834. Cyrus H. McCormick, inventor of the mowing machine, born at Walnut Grove, Virginia, in 1809.
Who was the inventor of the Sewing Machine?
Elias Howe. He was born at Spencer, Mass., July 9, 1819. When a boy he worked in a cotton mill at Lowell, but afterwards entered a machine shop in Boston. Here he conceived the idea of the sewing machine, and after long days of labor, part of which time he and his family lived on the kindness of a friend, he completed his invention. After many struggles, his talent, industry, and perseverance were rewarded, and long before his death, which occurred in October, 1867, he had acquired a large fortune.
Arts, 190 liberal, 190 fine, 191 mechanical, 191
Cat, civet, 141 domestic, singular property of its fur, 19 gut, 179
Earths, 151 argillaceous, 152 calcareous, 150 silicious, 152
Electrical machine, 19 properties in bodies, 19
Electro-Magnet, 104 Magnetic Teleg'ph., 104, 213
Gas, 114 hydrogen, 114 nitrogen or azote, 113 oxygen, 113
Glass, 53 house, 54 windows, 54 looking, 55
Light, 207 Drummond, 207 Electric, 208, 211 Lime, 207 Magnesium, 208
Paper, invention of, 57 mill, 58 linen, 58
Rock or fossil salt, 78 calcareous, 150 transition, 151
Salt, 78, 79 marine, 78 rock, 78 spring, 79
Water, 14 melon, 67 decomposition of by vegetables, 15 tree, 88
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