The Age of Invention
The Age of Invention
A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest
Free DownloadThis volume is not intended to be a complete record of inventive genius and mechanical progress in the United States... All this book seeks to do is to outline the personalities of some of the outstanding American inventors and indicate the significance of their achievements.
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chanic. The editor of a newspaper was always a printer and often composed his articles as he set them in type; so "composing" came to mean typesetting, and one who sets type is a compositor. Now James needed an apprentice. It happened then that young Benjamin, at the age of thirteen, was bound over by law to serve his brother.
James Franklin printed the "New England Courant", the fourth newspaper to be established in the colonies. Benjamin soon began to write articles for this newspaper. Then when his brother was put in jail, because he had printed matter considered libelous, and forbidden to continue as the publisher, the newspaper appeared in Benjamin's name.
The young apprentice felt that his brother was unduly severe and, after serving for about two years, made up his mind to run away. Secretly he took passage on a sloop and in three days reached New York, there to find that the one printer in the town, William Bradford, could give him no work. Benjamin then set out for Philadelphia. By boat
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A very nice book. I had quite an insight by reading it.
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Excellent Book
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