Leading American inventors

by Iles, George

1912 447 pages eng

“Sketches of the lives of John and Robert Livingston Stevens, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Blanchard, Samuel Morse. Charles Goodyear, John Ericsson, Cyrus Hall McCormick. Christopher Latham Sholes, Elias Howe, Benjamin Chew Tilghman, and Ottmar Mergenthaler, with interesting and clear descript…