[CHAPTER XIV].

The Typewriter.

[Old English Typewriter of 1714.] [The Burt Typewriter of 1829.] [Progin’s French Machine of 1833.] [Thurber’s Printing Machine of 1843.] [The Beach Typewriter.] [The Sholes Typewriter, the First of the Modern Form, Commercially Developed into the Remington.] [The Caligraph, Smith-Premier, and Others.]

[CHAPTER XV].

The Sewing Machine.

[Embroidery Machine the Forerunner of the Sewing Machine.] [Sewing Machine of Thomas Saint.] [The Thimonnier Wooden Machine.] [Greenough’s Double-Pointed Needle.] [Bean’s Stationary Needle.] [The Howe Sewing Machine.] [Bachelder’s Continuous Feed.] [Improvements of Singer.] [Wilson’s Rotary Hook, and Four-Motion Feed.] [The McKay Shoe Sewing Machine.] [Button Hole Machines.] [Carpet Sewing Machine.] [Statistics.]

[CHAPTER XVI].

The Reaper.

[Early English Machines.] [Machine of Patrick Bell.] [The Hussey Reaper.] [McCormick’s Reaper and Its Great Success.] [Rivalry Between the Two American Reapers.] [Self Rakers.] [Automatic Binders.] [Combined Steam Reaper and Threshing Machine.] [Great Wheat Fields of the West.] [Statistics.]

[CHAPTER XVII].