SECTIONAL VIEW OF MONITOR THROUGH TURRET AND PILOT-HOUSE, 198 THE ORIGINAL MONITOR, 199 FAC-SIMILE OF A PENCIL SKETCH BY ERICSSON GIVING A 201 TRANSVERSE SECTION OF HIS ORIGINAL MONITOR PLAN, WITH A LONGITUDINAL SECTION DRAWN OVER IT, INTERIOR OF THE DESTROYER, LOOKING TOWARD THE BOW, 202 DEVELOPMENT OF THE MONITOR IDEA, 204 THE ROOM IN WHICH ERICSSON WORKED FOR MORE THAN TWENTY 206 YEARS, FARM WHERE CYRUS H. MCCORMICK WAS BORN AND RAISED, 209 EXTERIOR OF THE BLACKSMITH SHOP WHERE THE FIRST REAPER WAS 212 BUILT, INTERIOR OF THE BLACKSMITH SHOP WHERE THE FIRST REAPER WAS 215 BUILT, THE FIRST REAPER, 217 EDISON'S PAPER CARBON LAMP, 224 EDISON LISTENING TO HIS PHONOGRAPH, 227 FROM EDISON'S NEWSPAPER, THE "GRAND TRUNK HERALD," 230 EDISON'S TINFOIL PHONOGRAPH--THE FIRST PRACTICAL MACHINE, 237 VOTE RECORDER--EDISON'S FIRST PATENTED INVENTION, 243 EDISON'S MENLO PARK ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE (1880), 250 THE HOME OF THOMAS A. EDISON, 257 EDISON'S LABORATORY, 258 LIBRARY AT EDISON'S LABORATORY, 262 ALVAN CLARK, 276 C.L. SHOLES, 286 B.B. HOTCHKISS, 288 CHARLES F. BRUSH, 290 RUDOLPH EICKEMEYER, 294 GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, JR., 296 INVENTORS I. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Benjamin Franklin's activity and resource in the field of invention really partook of the intellectual breadth of the man of whom Turgot wrote: "Eripuit coelo fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis." "He snatched the thunderbolt from heaven, And the sceptre from the hands of tyrants."