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The Industrial Revolution 1750-1850
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INVENTORS
MEN OF ACHIEVEMENT SERIES
TRAVELLERS AND EXPLORERS. By
General A.W. Greely, U.S.A.
STATESMEN. By Noah Brooks.
MEN OF BUSINESS. By W.O. Stoddard.
INVENTORS. By P.G. Hubert, Jr.
MEN OF ACHIEVEMENT
BY
PHILIP G. HUBERT, Jr.
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1896
Copyright, 1893, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Press of J.J. Little & Co.
Astor Place, New York
PREFACE
This book, dealing with our great inventors, their origins, hopes, aims, principles, disappointments, trials, and triumphs, their daily life and personal character, presents just enough concerning their inventions to man the story intelligible. The history is often a painful one. When poor Goodyear, the uppfinnare of vulcanized rubber, was one day asked what he wanted to make of his boys, he is said to have replied: "Make them anything but inventors; mankind has nothing but cuffs and kicks for those who try to do it a service."
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