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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 95 1 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 38 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 27 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 16 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist 4 0 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 4 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agricultural implements. (search)
tchman, patented in Great Britain in 1788, but this has since been changed in detail, till scarcely more than the outline of the original plan is left. The fanning-machine was originally invented in Holland, though largely improved and altered by American inventions. An agricultural implement of great importance to one part of the country, at least, is the cotton-gin. The first machine of this kind was invented by M. Debreuil, a French planter of Louisiana, but did not prove successful. Whitney's cotton-gin, which did succeed, and increased the production of cotton tenfold in two years, was invented in 1793. The census of 1890 reported 910 establishments engaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements. These had a capital investment of $145.313,997, employed 42,544 persons, paid $21,811,761 for wages, and $31,603,265 for materials used in construction, and turned out implements valued at $81,271,651. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, the exportation of American-m
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ernment, Philadelphia, Pa. George Washington, Virginia, President. John Adams, Massachusetts, Vice-President. Citizen Genet of France, as minister to the United States, arrives at Charleston, S. C.; warmly received......April 9, 1793 Eli Whitney invents the cotton-gin; marked effect on slavery......1793 President issues his celebrated proclamation of neutrality (severely criticised by the opposition)......April 22, 1793 French government directs the seizure of vessels carrying sf New York City, sentenced to ten years imprisonment at Sing Sing......June 27, 1885 Niagara Falls reservation formally opened to the public. July 15, 1885 Investigation of contract for ship-building with John Roach instituted by Secretary of Navy Whitney, in March; payments to Mr. Roach suspended......July 19, 1885 Gen. U. S. Grant dies at Mount McGregor, near Saratoga, N. Y., 8.08 A. M.......July 23, 1885 Proclamation of President suspending all public business on the day of fune
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
nee and Ocmulgee rivers......Aug. 13, 1790 Two brass cannon, taken at Yorktown, are presented to the Chatham artillery of Savannah, by General Washington, in appreciation of their part in his reception in Savannah; one bears the inscription, Surrendered by the capitulation of York Town, Oct. 19, 1781. Honi soit qui mal y pense—G. R. with the imperial crown......1791 General Washington, on a Presidential tour, arrives at Savannah and is received with enthusiasm......May 13, 1791 Eli Whitney, of Connecticut, while residing in Georgia, invents the cotton-gin......May 27, 1793 General Clarke, claiming that by the treaty of 1790 certain lands on the south side of the Oconee River had been improperly ceded to the Creeks by the United States, takes possession, defying Georgia and United States, but is driven out......Oct. 12, 1794 Seat of government removed from Augusta to Louisville, now county seat of Jefferson county......May 16, 1795 Rescinding act signed by Governor
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whitney, Eli 1765-1825 (search)
Whitney, Eli 1765-1825 Inventor; born in Westboro, Mass., Dec. 8, 1765; graduated at Yale Collely about 2,000,000 pounds. The following year Whitney accepted an invitation to teach the children ere, said Mrs. Greene; he can make anything. Whitney had then never seen a cotton-seed with wool adelighted. Phineas Miller, a college-mate of Whitney, had come to Georgia, and soon became the secng some money, he formed a copartnership with Whitney in the manufacture of gins. The machine was ng delayed to fulfil them; and when, in 1812, Whitney asked Congress for an extension of his patents denied. Thenceforth those who had wronged Whitney, in defiance of law and justice, were permittprotection of law. The immediate influence of Whitney's cotton-gin upon the dying institution of slt played an important part in the social, Eli Whitney. commercial, and political history of the c an imperial sceptre, almost unchallenged. Eli Whitney, a Yankee school-master, built the throne o