Destroyed by Mob.-English Embroidering Machine, 1841.-Concurrent Inventions in Widely Separated Countries.-Thimonnier in France, Hunt in America, 1832, 1834.-Elias Howe, 1846.-Description of Howe's Inventions.--Recital of his Struggles and final Triumphs. -The Test of Priority.-Leather Sewing Machines of Greenough and Corliss, 1842-43.-Bean's Running Stitch, 1843.-The Decade of 1849-1859, Greatest in Century in Sewing Machine Inventions.-Hood's Song of the Shirt," a Dying Drudgery.—Improvements after Howe. -Blodgett and Lerow's Dip Motion.-Wilson's Four- Motion Feed.-Singer's Inventions, their Importance, his Rise from Poverty to Great Wealth.-The Grover and Baker. The Display in 1876 at the Centennial.-Vast Growth of the Industry.—Extraordinary Versatility of Invention in Sewing and Reaping Machines, and Breech- loading Fire-arms.—Commercial Success due to Division of Labour and Assembling of Parts.-Innumerable Addi- tions to the Art.-Seventy-five Different Stitches.-Pass- ing of the Quilting Party.-Embroidery and Buttonhole Machines.-Garment-cutting Machines.-Bonnets and Inventions of Women.-Hat Making.--Its History.-Bon- jeau's Improvements in Plain Cloths, 1834.-Effect of Inventions Engender Others.-Co-operative Growth.- Done by the Sand Blast and How,-Emery and Corun- ...... CHAPTER XXI. WOOD-WORKING. Contrast of Prehistoric Labour and Implements and Mod- PAGE 828 Brunel's Machines, 1805-1808.-Homes Made Beautiful by Modern Wood-working.-Objects without and With- in a House, Made by Such Machinery.-Array of Wood- PAGB FURNITURE.-BOTTLING, PRESERVING, AND LAMPLIGHTING. Universal Supply of Convenient and Ornamental Furni- ture Due to Modern Inventions and Machinery.-The Furniture of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans,- Tables.-Modern Improvements.-Combined Tables, Desks, and Chairs.-Special Forms of Each.-Beds: Advance from the Ponderous Bedsteads of Former Times.-Modern, Ornamental, Healthful Styles.-Iron, Brass, Springs, Surgical and Invalid Chairs and Beds. -Kitchen Utensils.-Vast Amount of Drudgery Re- lieved. Curtains, Shades, and Screens.-Great Changes Produced by Steaming and Bending Wood.-The Bent- wood Ware Factories of Austria, Hungary, Moravia 1870-73), in Vast Beech Forests Followed in other Countries.-Modern Chairs of Various Kinds.-The Dentist and the Theatre.-Bottle Stoppers.-Enormous Demand for Cork Exhausting the Supply.—Modern Substitutes.-Fruit Jars, etc.-Lamplighting, Ancient Leather and Prehistoric Man.-Earliest Implements and Machine, Hide-mill, Pioneer Machine of Century.-Flesh- ing Machines.-Tanning Apparatus.-Reel Machines.— Tanning Processes and the Chemists.-Machines for Dif- ferent Operations.---Pendulum Lever Machine.-Leather Splitting, and other Remarkable Machines.-Boots and Shoes, their Character before Modern Inventions.- Randolph's Riveting Machine of 1809.-Great Civil En- gineer, J. M. Brunel's Machines.-1818, Walker Invents the Wooden Peg.-Peg-making Machines.-1858, Sturte- vant's Great Improvement.-Fifty-five Million Pairs of Boots and Shoes then Annually Pegged.-Metal Wire, and Screw Pegs.-Last-turning Machines of Blanchard. -McKay's Shoe Sewing Machine.-Revolution in Shoe Making. Special Machines for Making Every Part.- One Machine Makes 300 Pairs a Day.-Many Millions made Daily.-Vast Increase of Labourers as the Art Advances.-Illustrations of Yankee Enterprise.— Modern and Ancient Harnesses.-Embossed Leather.- Book Covers and the many Useful and Beautiful Ancient Tools and the Art of Building.-The Parthenon.- Lead, Mercury, Plate, Vacuum, Vapour, etc.-The CHAPTER XXV. HOROLOGY AND INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION. Time Measuring Instruments of Antiquity.—Sun-dial.— PAGE 373 |