SUGGESTIONS INTENDED TO HELP THE PUPIL
The Leading Facts. 1. Fulton's invention greatly increased commerce before the coming of railroads. 2. Congress granted Morse money to build a telegraph line, after many delays. 3. Bell and Gray invented the telephone. 4. Marconi invented wireless telegraphy. 5. Cyrus Field after many failures laid a permanent cable across the Atlantic in 1866. 6. McCormick's reaper hastened the settlement of the West. 7. Howe became rich through the invention of the sewing machine.
Study Questions. 1. Tell of early attempts to build steamboats. 2. Give the story of the Clermont. 3. Give an account of the steps by which Morse won success. 4. How many attempts did Field make before a permanent cable was laid? 5. What was the great importance of McCormick's reaper? 6. Describe Howe's first sewing machine.
Suggested Readings. Robert Fulton: Glascock, Stories of Columbia, 186-188; Wright, Children's Stories of American Progress, 104-120; Thurston, Robert Fulton.
Samuel F. B. Morse: Trowbridge, Samuel Finley Breeze Morse; Mowry, American Inventions and Inventors, 270-277; Holland, Historic Inventions, 168-188.
Bell and Gray: Holland, Historic Inventions, 215-232.
Cyrus West Field: Judson, Cyrus W. Field; Doubleday, Stories of Inventors, 3-16; Mowry, American Inventions and Inventors, 278-285.
Cyrus H. McCormick: Brooks, The Story of Corn, 218-220; Forman, Stories of Useful Inventions, 91-96; Sanford, The Story of Agriculture in the United States, 144-149.
Elias Howe: Hubert, Inventors, 99-110.