...some unconscious inversion of emphasis when he wrote to his friend Joel Barlow about the steamboat, " Although the prospect of personal emolument has been...reflecting on the immense advantage that my country will draw from the invention." Morse showed in the early part of his career less evidence of the contriving...

...some unconscious inversion of emphasis when he wrote to his friend Joel Barlow about the steamboat, " Although the prospect of personal emolument has been...reflecting on the immense advantage that my country will draw from the invention." Morse showed in the early part of his career less evidence of the contriving...

...remarks. This is the way in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Although the prospect of personal emolument has been...more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage my country will derive from the invention."2 The Clermont, as she appeared before being rebuilt, was...

...inventions, good and bad, was unquestionably sincere, though doubtless exuberant of emphasis, when he wrote: "Although the prospect of personal emolument has been...infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantages that my country will draw from the invention" (of the steamboat). Edison had the same mixed...

...eyes. For more than twenty years he had hoped against hope, and now he saw the fruition of his work. "Although the prospect of personal emolument has been some inducement to me," he wrote to an intimate friend, "yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantages...

...pleasure to see it answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandize on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers,...treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen; and, altho the prospect of personal emolument has been some inducement to me, yet I feel infinitely more...

...see it fully answers my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to our countrymen; and although the prospect of personal gain has been some inducement to me, yet I feel...

...change he was to bring about, for he said: "It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchants on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers...their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen; .... I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantages that my country will draw...

...said of his work: "It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi and Missouri and other great rivers, which are now laying...their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen." Eli Whitney's cotton gin. — Eli Whitney, a very enterprising New England lad, turned his genius toward...

...change he was to bring about, for he said: "It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchants on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers which are now laying open their treasures to the enter- • prise of our countrymen; . . . . I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense...