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Born in Warren, Mass., July 2, 1759. Died near Belfast, Me., January 20, 1849.
Graduated from Harvard College in 1781, Read was a tutor at Harvard for four years. In 1788 he began experimenting to discover some way of utilizing the steam engine for propelling boats and carriages.
97 visits
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Oliver Evans
Born in 1755 or 1756, in Newport, Del. Died in Philadelphia, April 21, 1819.
Little has been preserved respecting the early history of Oliver Evans, who has been aptly styled “The Watt of America.” His parents were farming people, and he had only an ordinary common-school education. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a wheelwright or wagonmaker, and continued his meager education by studying at night time by the light that he made by burning chips and shavings in the fireplace.
64 visits
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Richard Trevithick
Born in Illogan, in the west of Cornwall, England, April 13, 1771. Died in Dartford, Kent, April 22, 1833.
In 1780 he built a double-acting high-pressure engine with a crank, for Cook’s Kitchen mine. This was known as the Puffer, from the noise that it made, and it soon came into general use in Cornwall and South Wales, a successful rival of the low-pressure steam vacuum engine of Watt.
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Thomas Blanchard
Born in Sutton, Mass., June 24, 1788. Died, April 16, 1864.
Blanchard was a prolific inventor, having taken out no less than thirty or forty patents for as many different inventions. He did not reap great benefit from his labors, for many of his inventions scarcely paid the cost of getting them up, while others were appropriated without payment to him, or even giving him credit.
86 visits
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William Murdock
Born in Bellow Mill, near Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, August 21, 1754. Died at Sycamore Hill, November 15, 1839.
When he was twenty-three years of age he entered the employment of the famous engineering firm of Boulton & Watt, at Soho, and there remained throughout his active life.
Watt recognized in him a valuable assistant, and his services were jealously regarded. On his part he devoted himself unreservedly to the interests of his employers.
105 visits
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Carl Benz
Born, November 26, 1844, at Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany.
Died, April 4, 1929, Ladenburg, Germany
In 1880 he began to commercialize a two-cycle stationary engine. In 1883 he organized his business as Benz & Co., and produced his first vehicle in 1884. In the beginning of 1885 his three-wheeled vehicle ran through the streets of Mannheim, Germany, attracting much attention with its noisy exhaust. This was the subject of his patent dated January 29, 1886, claimed by him to be the first German patent on a light oil motor vehicle. This embodied a horizontal flywheel belt transmission through a differential and two chains to the wheels; but it is noteworthy primarily as having embodied a four-cycle, water jacketed, three-quarter horse-power engine, with electric ignition.
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Pierre Mille
56 visits
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Queen Victoria
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Lyman Trumbull
292 visits
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Alexander H. Stephens
193 visits
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Edwin M. Stanton
332 visits
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Image 8073
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Image 7875
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Image 7876
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John Jay
104 visits
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Image 7873
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Image 7872
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Image 7870
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Image 7871
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Image 7869
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Image 7868
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Abraham Lincoln
174 visits
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Image 7865
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Image 7866
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Ludwig van Beethoven
361 visits
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Image 7518
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Image 7519
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Image 7517
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Image 7516
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Image 7515
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Image 7514
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Image 7125
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Edmund John Millington Synge
214 visits
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Image 7010
360 visits
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Bródy Sándor
266 visits
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Abraham Lincoln
1092 visits
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Image 6711
332 visits
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Image 6710
393 visits
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Image 6706
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Image 6707
359 visits
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Image 6703
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Image 6704
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Image 6705
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Image 6701
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Image 6702
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Image 6699
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Dante
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The orations of Cato are unhappily lost. But Cicero, a master of eloquence, and well enabled to compare them with similar compositions, passes upon them the highest eulogiums. The eloquence of Cato has been compared, for its force and energy, to the eloquence of that Demosthenes before whom Philip of Macedon quailed, and whose tremendous orations have given the name of Philippics to all sarcastic and vehement invectives.
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Image 6698
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Image 6695
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Image 6696
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Image 6693
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Image 6694
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J C Coleman
447 visits
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John Montgomery Ward of the New York Base-Ball Club
282 visits
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Tthorwalden's statue of John Gutenberg
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Queen Victorias first council - Kensington Palace June 20 1837
The year 1837, except for the death of the old King and the accession of the young Queen, was a tolerably insignificant year. It was on June 20 that the King died. He was buried on the evening of July 9 at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor; on the 10th the Queen dissolved Parliament; on the 13th she went to Buckingham Palace; and on November 9 she visited the City, where they gave her a magnificent banquet, served in Guildhall at half past five, the Lord Mayor and City magnates humbly taking their modest meal at a lower table.
603 visits
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
465 visits
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Billy the Kid
300 visits
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William Ewart Gladstone
335 visits
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Simon Bolivar
382 visits
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Robert Tristram Coffin, Poet
481 visits
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Robert Herrick
352 visits
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Otto von Bismarck
460 visits
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Nicola the magician
429 visits
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Marshall Jofre
446 visits
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Marshall Foch
356 visits
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Lorado Taft
334 visits
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Lafayette
379 visits
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Josef Lhevinne
345 visits
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John Masefield
360 visits
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Jack Dempsey
364 visits
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Howard Thurston
322 visits
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Howard Thurston - Magician
330 visits
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Giovanni Martinelli
334 visits
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Georges Clemenceau
330 visits
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Garet Garrett
341 visits
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Frederick the Great
329 visits
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Charles G. Dawes
351 visits
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Charles Darwin
379 visits
