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Show In Honor of a Great Inventor. THK STATUE AT NEWARK. The statue to Seth Boyden, recently unveiled at Newark, N. J., has a unique distinction. It is the first monument ever erected to a workingrman that represents rep-resents the subject as employed at his daily task. Seth Boyden became a resident of Newark in 1813, when he was 27 years of ago. He died in that city in 1870. To him is due the invention of malleable iron, the perfection of enameled leather, the introduction of straight axles and connecting con-necting rods on locomotives, and tho discovery of the reversing geai for engines and the duplex valve gear for pumps. He also made valuable researches in electricity, photography and metallurgy. Mr. Boyden waa a native of Foxboro, Mass., and began life aa a farm laborer. |