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Science has given housewives the mechanical dishwasher, the tireless cooker, the cherry stoner, the self-agitating cocktail shaker, the cast-iron pea sheller. but not until last month did U. S. housewives have a machine to make cream...
...Dortmund, Germany, Friedrich Sheller coldly eyed his 14-year-old Gertrude's new hair bob, led her to a barber, seized clippers, adjusted them to half a millimetre, grunted, "Let's do it thoroughly," sheared her poll...
Cyrus Hall McCormick used to go with his father, Robert, into a log hut on their Virginia farm and the two would work secretly for hours. The father was a Scotch-Irishman, quick with his hands. He had invented a hemp-brake, a cloyer-sheller, a bellows and a threshing machine that won him fame before he left the old country. He often stood pensively over a rusted wreck beside his Virginia barn, the wreck of a baffled dream. Cyrus too studied it. It was a reaper that would not reap. One day in 1831 (after his father...