16 THE WONDERFUL CENTURY. CHAP. n. 



have found to characterize our new methods of loco- 

 motion. 



There are, of course, innumerable other remarkable 

 mechanical inventions of the century in almost every 

 department of industry such as the Jacquard loom for 

 pattern-weaving, revolvers and machine-guns, iron ships, 

 screw propellers, etc.; while machinery has been exten- 

 sively applied to watch-making, screw-cutting, nail-mak- 

 ing, printing, and a hundred other purposes. But none 

 of these are of very high importance in themselves, or 

 possess the special characteristics of being new and quite 

 distinct departures from what has been done before, and 

 they cannot therefore rank individually among those 

 greater discoveries which pre-eminently distinguish the 

 nineteenth century. 



