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_Indomitable_, not to be subdued

_Persistent_, inclined to hold fire supported by wires, ropes, or chains, which usually pass over high piers or coluround below

Naes of this kind

That at Niagara, those over the Allegheny at Pittsburg and the Ohio at Cincinnati, and the great East River bridge, which connects New York and Brooklyn

Who planned these bridges?

John A Roebling, as born at Mulhausen, Prussia, June 12, 1806

In 1831 he eenius we are indebted for the bridges above named The reports, plans, and specifications of the East River bridge were co was severely injured in the foot while directing his work Lockjaw succeeding areat Civil Engineer has the West given birth?

Ja, Indiana, May 28, 1820, he began life as a clerk on a Mississippi river stea sunken property, and with such success that he retired with a fortune in 1857 During the civil war he devised a plan for the defence of the Western waters, and constructed several iron gun-boats with many novel features of his own invention

He has since acquired reputation as projecting and constructing engineer of the Illinois and St Louis bridge, and by building jetties at the South Pass of the Mississippi, by which the depth of the river is increased, and it isdikes of brush, fascines, and stone

_Fascines_, bundles of rods or of small sticks of wood, bound at both ends and at inter ditches, etc

Give the nauished American inventors

Eli Whitney, the inventor of the Cotton Gin, born in Westborough, Mass, 1765; died 1825 Jethro Wood, the inventor of the modern cast-iron plow, born at White Creek, NY, 1774; died 1834 Cyrus H

McCor inia, in 1809

Who was the inventor of the Sewing Machine?

Elias Howe He was born at Spencer, Mass, July 9, 1819 When a boy he worked in a cotton mill at Lowell, but afterwards entered a machine shop in Boston Here he conceived the idea of the sewingdays of labor, part of which time he and his family lived on the kindness of a friend, he coles, his talent, industry, and perseverance were rewarded, and long before his death, which occurred in October, 1867, he had acquired a large fortune