Later, when the world was becoming interested in cotton spinning under the stimulus of Arkwright’s invention, Buel went to England to learn how to spin cotton. He came back, bought some machinery, and set up in New Haven the second cotton mill in America, the first being Samuel Slater’s mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. This seems to have been the last shift in Buel’s varied life. He died in 1825 at the age of about seventy-five. He was an interesting product of his time and its conditions and as such his story deserves record, for it must be remembered that he was not a “sport,” but a “type.” In 1774 Jacob Bay attempted type founding in Philadelphia, but he also was apparently only an experimenter. In 1775 an experiment was made which, from the conditions and from the character of the maker, we should expect to find successful, but which failed nevertheless. At this time Benjamin Franklin brought out from France a full set of tools and punches and undertook, with his son-in-law, Bache, to establish a type foundry, there being then no type founding done in this country if we may except what was being done in Sauer’s establishment. The Franklin-Bache foundry was well equipped with roman, italic, Greek, and Hebrew matrices. Bache had received some instruction from Fournier, the great French type founder, from whom Franklin had purchased the tools. They had for their workman a man named Frederick Geiger. Geiger was what is known as a “redemptioner,” or a man who in return for his passage money to America, his board, and a small amount of money wages agreed to be the bond servant of his creditor for a certain period. These arrangements were very common at this time and reflected no discredit upon the young men who made them. Geiger was a mathematical instrument maker by profession, but became with study and practice a very expert matrix cutter and founder. Franklin had brought him out and he served his time with Franklin, but appears to have left him as soon as his time was out and to have gone to the Philadelphia mint. Like many another skilled mechanic, however, he became interested in the search for a perpetual motion machine and finally died an insane pauper. For some reason, the Franklin foundry was not successful. It has been conjectured that one reason may have been that Franklin was very much influenced by French models in his designs, and that the printers and the reading public were so accustomed to English type faces that they did not take kindly to the new forms. Curiously enough American printers have never taken kindly to French type faces although many of them, from Garamond down, are very beautiful. Some of the French types designed, not far from 1875, seem to have become Americanized and are among the most legible and beautiful in use, but the American printers have never been very willing to use them. Whatever the reason, the Franklin foundry was added to the list of unsuccessful attempts at type founding.