Identifier: inventors00hube2 (find matches)
Title: Inventors
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925
Subjects: Inventors
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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osed by the very classes whichin the end they were destined to bless. Nearlyevery great invention has had literally to beforced into popular acceptance. The bowmenof the Middle Ages resisted the introduction ofthe musket; the sedan-chair carriers would notallow hackney carriages to be used ; the stasre- J O O coach lines attempted by all possible devices toblock the advance of the railway. When, in1707, Dr. Papin showed his first rude conceptionof a steamboat, it was seized by the boatmen, who J feared that it would deprive them ot a living.Kay was mobbedin Lancashire when he tried tointroduce his fly-shuttle ; Hargreaves had his J O spinning-frame destroyed by a Blackburn mob ;Crampton had to hide his spinning-mule in alumber-room for fear of a similar fate ; Arkwright,the inventor of the spinning-frame, was de-nounced as the enemy of the working-classesand his mill destroyed ; Jacquard narrowly es-caped being thrown into the river Rhone by acrowd of furious weavers when his new loom
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Elias Howe. ELIAX HOWK 101 was first put into operation ; Cartwright had toabandon his power-loom lor vears because ofthe bitter animosity of the weavers toward it.Riots were organized in Nottingham againstthe use of the stocking-loom. It is not therefore surprising that the greatestlabor-saving machine of domestic life, the sew-ing-machine, should have been received with any-thing: but thanks. Howe was abused, ridiculed, o and denounced as the enemy of man, and espe-cially of poor sewing-women, the very class whosetoil he has done so much to lighten. Curses in-stead of blessings were showered upon him dur-ing the first years that followed the successfulworking of his wonderful machine. Fortunatelyfor the inventor, the age of persecution had al-most passed, and Howe lived to receive the re-wards he so fully deserved. Elias Howe, Jr.. was born in Spencer, Mass., in1819. His father was a farmer and miller, andthe eigflit children of the family, as was common o - with all poor people of

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