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Show XXvX- Inventions That Have Helped World Along James Watt saw how tiresome It was to pump out a mine by hand, and invented the steam engine. James HnrM-eaves a weaver, who worked ,ast t s band ioom, had difficulty in Sins bimse.f provided with yarn, ami so devised the spmn.ng enn which replaced the wheel jut a the wheel had displaced the ancient distaff. Richard Arkwright had beeo , a , successful suc-cessful wigmaker and a sin -e v,d buye and from its use built up v. hat a. the greatost of Eighteenth century for-tunes, for-tunes, C'iOO.iXX) sterling. ! Toilsome work with eye and needle ; were done away with when Joseph Marie Jaeqtuird Invented the silk-loom. silk-loom. Klias Howe redeemed wnmei. from retail slavery with the needle and made it wholesale with his sewinz machine, from which capitalists made , all the money, while the sweatshup in i due season replaced the lmmework I says Don C. Seilz, in u article in the j Outlook Magazine. |