CHAPTEK II. 



LABOR-SAVING MACHINERY. 



Wonderful chair ! Wonderful horses ! Wonderful people ! 

 Whirr ! whirr ! all by wheels ! Whizz ! whizz ! all by steam. 



Eothen. 



Work work work 

 Till the brain begins to swim ; 



Work work work 

 Till the eyes are heavy and dim ! 

 Seam and gusset and band, 



Band and gusset and seam, 

 Till over the buttons I fall asleep, 



And sew them on in a dream ! 



Hood. 



THE invention and partial development of much of 

 our modern machinery dates from the last century, and 

 our most advanced appliances for the manufacture of 

 the various textile fabrics and hardware are mostly im- 

 provements of, or developments from, the older ma- 

 chines. These, taken in connection with the great im- 

 provements in steam-engines, have multiplied many 

 times over the efficiency of human labor, but do not 

 otherwise specially interest us here. There are, how- 

 ever, a few inventions which have the character of quite 

 new departures, since not only do they greatly diminish 

 labor but they perform, by mechanical contrivances, 

 operations which had been supposed to be beyond the 

 power of machinery to execute. The more prominent 

 of these are the sewing machine, the typewriter, and the 



