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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 16, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 46, No. 11.

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Changes of a Century.

THE nineteenth century has witnessed many and great discoveries.
In 1809, Fulton took out the first patent for the invention of the steamboat.
The first steamboats which made regular trips across the Atlantic Ocean were the Sirius and the Great Western, in 1830.
The first public application to practical use of gas for illumination was made in 1802.
In 1813, the streets of London were for the first time lighted with gas.
In 1813, there was built in Waltham, Mass., a mill, believed to have been the first in the world which combined all the requirements of making finished cloth from the raw cotton.
In 1790, there were only twenty-five post-offices in the whole country, and up to 1837 the rates of postage were twenty-five cents for a letter sent over four hundred miles.
In 1807, wooden clocks commenced to be made by machinery. This ushered in the era of cheap clocks.
About the year 1833, the first railroad of any considerable length in the United States was constructed.
In 1840, the first experiments in photography were made by Daguerre.
About 1840, the first express business was established.
The anthracite coal business may be said to have begun in 1820.
In 1836, the first patent for the invention of matches was granted.
In 1845, the first telegram was sent.
Steel pens were introduced for use in 1803.
The first successful trial of a reaper took place in 1833.
In 1846, Elias Howe obtained a patent for his first sewing-machine.
The first successful method of making vulcanized Indiarubber was patented in 1839.—Sel.