HOWE, ELIAS. Born at Spencer, Massachusetts, July 9, 1819; invented sewing-machine, 1844; died at Brooklyn, New York, October 3, 1867. CORLISS, GEORGE HENRY. Born at Easton, New York, July 2, 1817; invented Corliss engine, 1849; died at Providence, Rhode Island, February 21, 1888. SHOLES, CHRISTOPHER LATHAM. Born at Mooresburg, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1819; state senator, Wisconsin, 1848, 1856-58; held many positions of trust in Milwaukee, 1869-78; patented typewriter, 1868. BELL, ALEXANDER GRAHAM. Born at Edinburgh, Scotland, March 3, 1847; came to Canada, 1870, and to Boston, 1871; invented telephone, 1876; graphophone, 1883. BRUSH, CHARLES FRANCIS. Born at Euclid, Ohio, March 17, 1849; graduated University of Michigan, 1869; invented modern arc electric lighting; founder Brush Electric Company. WESTINGHOUSE, GEORGE. Born at Central Bridge, Schoharie County, New York, October 6, 1846; invented rotary engine at age of fifteen; in Union army, 1863-64; invented air brake, 1868; also inventions in railway signals, steam and gas engines, turbines, and electric machinery. EDISON, THOMAS ALVA. Born at Milan, Ohio, February 11, 1847; established workshop at Menlo Park, New Jersey, 1876; invented megaphone, phonograph, aerophone, incandescent electric lamp, kinetoscope, and many other things. WRIGHT, ORVILLE. Born at Dayton, Ohio, 1871. WRIGHT, WILBUR. Born at Dayton, Ohio, 1869. INDEX Abbey, Edwin A., 117, 124. Adams, Edwin, 179. Adams, Herbert, 153. Addams, Jane, 223-224, 230. Agassiz, Alexander, 192, 225. Agassiz, Louis, 186-192, 193, 201-202, 209-210, 211, 213, 224. Alcott, Amos Bronson, 41-43, 52. Alcott, Louisa May, 42-43, 52. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 75-76, 82-83, 163. Alexander, Francis, 102-103, 121. Alexander, John W., 119. Allen, James Lane, 33. Allston, Washington, 97, 99, 121, 126. Anderson, Charles Joseph, 174. Anderson, Mary, 174-175, 183. Andrew, John A., 266. Anthony, Susan B., 271-272, 289. Arnold, Benedict, 95. Astor, John Jacob, 294-297, 324. Astor, William B., 296-297. Atwood, Elizabeth, 303. Audubon, John James, 186-190, 224. Austin, James T., 270. Bailey, Liberty Hyde, 212. Ball, Thomas, 136, 137-139, 155. Bancroft, George, 34-36, 51. Barker, George Frederick, 212. Barlow, Joel, 329. Barnard, George Gray, 153, 156. Barnum, Phineas Taylor, 302-305, 314, 325. Barrett, Lawrence, 171-172, 176, 183. Bartlett, Paul Wayland, 153. Barton, Clara, 277-278, 289. Beecher, Henry Ward, 252, 254, 281, 287. Beecher, Lyman, 31, 252-254, 269, 287. Bell, Alexander Graham, 328, 356-358, 373. Bell, Alexander Melville, 357. Belmont, August, 323. Benjamin, Park, 74. Bennett, James Gordon, 47, 309. Bergh, Henry, 278-280, 290. Bessey, Charles Edward, 212. Bickmore, Albert Smith, 193. Bierstadt, Albert, 108, 122. Boone, Daniel, 100. Booth, Edwin, 118, 157, 158, 160-164, 166, 168, 169, 171, 172, 173, 176, 182, 183. Booth, John Wilkes, 161. Booth, Junius Brutus, 158-162, 177, 182.