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b. August 10, 1826 and d. February 18, 1888

American inventor. He was employed in a paper-mill and made improvements in the machinery. He devised the first rubber belt that was used in this country and the first cylinder printing-machine, from which has grown the present industry of wallpaper and calico printing. His other inventions include a method of producing satin-faced paper, a method of vulcanizing rubber (1841), an automatic battery, a revolving cannon, bomb shells, a coffee-hulling machine and a self-acting drawbridge for railroads.

The whirl and clash, through the nights and days,
The magical looms of thought:
And in and out, through a thousand ways,
The flashing threads are brought.
Their swift purveyors part and meet,
On rail and ship, on mart and street,
With tireless brain, with hurrying feet,
As the endless web is wrought.

—Song of the Press: The Argosy

1799, August 10—Cyrus Buckland was born. In 1842 he perfected his stocking-frame, by which finished gun-stocks were made directly by machines from the rough stick of wood.

1849, August 10—Charles E. Tripler was born. In 1891 he succeeded in liquifying air, after which he applied it to compressed air motors.

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