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[Illustration:

  PLATE I.

  THE GREAT WHEEL IN ACTION.
]




                       DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS

                                 OF THE

                           NINETEENTH CENTURY


              Who saw what ferns and palms were pressed
              Under the tumbling mountain’s breast,
              In the safe herbal of the coal?
              But when the quarried means were piled,
              All is waste and worthless, till
              Arrives the wise selecting Will,
              And, out of slime and chaos, Wit
              Draws the threads of fair and fit.
              Then temples rose, and towns, and marts,
              The shop of toil, the hall of arts;
              Then flew the sail across the seas
             