b. September 1799 and d. January 4, 1861

English engineer and inventor. He devoted a great deal of attention to flax-spinning, and made many improvements in machinery therfore. His inventions include machines for preparing and spinning silk waste, and improvements in machinery for making rope yarn. His improvement in the roving-frame, and his adaptation of what is known as the “differential motion” to it, his success in working the “screw gill” motion, and his introduction of the rotary gill, were important factors in the growth of the efficiency of spinning machinery.

Dare from custom to depart;
Dare the priceless pearl possess;
Dare to wear it next your heart;
Dare, when others curse, to bless.
Dare forsake what you deem wrong;
Dare to walk in wisdom’s way;
Dare to give where gifts belong;
Dare God’s precepts to obey.

—Dare and Do: Macaulay

30 B.C.—Silk and linen manufactured in the Roman Empire.

1130—Silk culture was introduced into Sicily, 1146. Sicilians spun and wove silk.

1893—Artificial silk made from cellulose by Chardonette.

b. May 5, 1811 and d. January 4, 1882

English scientist. In March, 1840 he presented the Lyceum of Natural History of New York with the first respresentation of the moon’s surface ever taken by photography; he was engaged with Samuel F. B. Morse in his production of the electro-magnetic telegraph:; in 1847 he published his “Production of Light by Heat”; he was the first to photograph the diffraction spectrum. Among his most important works are his “Human Physiology Statistical and Dynamical; or, the Conditions and Course of Life in Man” (1856); and his “History of the Intellectual Development of Europe” (1863).

I do believe that the great Architect
With all these fires the heavently arches deck
Only for show, and with these glistening shields
T’ amaze the poor shepherds watching in the fields;
I do not believe that the least flower which pranks
Our garden bowers, or our common banks.
And the least stone, that, in her warming lap,
Our mother earth doth covetously wrap,
Hath some peculiar virtue of its own,
And that the glorious stars of Heaven have none.

—Du Bartas: Sylvester

1839—Prof. Draper’s experiments resulted in the beginning of the photographic supply industry.

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