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Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in the 1800s
Herreshoff Company Steam Engines and Steam Boats 1864-1881
Also See [[http://www.machine-history.com/Herreshoff%20Ship%20List%201800s|Herreshoff Ship List, Launched in the 1800's]]
Boudet Microphone, 1881
Scientific American February 5, 1881
The mouthpiece contains an ebony plate one millimeter thick, on which is fixed a piece of copper, Ml, penetrating the glass tube a slight distance. In this tube there are six carbon balls slightly smaller in diameter, so that they can easily be moved.
Boudet's Microphone
February 5, 1881 Scientific American
NEW MICROPHONE.
BY M. BOUDET, OF PARIS.
This microphone, with multiple contacts, as shown in the accompanying figure, is composed of a mouthpiece, E, affixed to the end of a glass tube, T, one centimeter in diameter, itself fixed on a jointed stand, thus enabling the whole apparatus to be moved at any inclination.
Grain Binder Reaper 1890.jpg
Scientific American July 25, 1896
Wood Cut
Machine cuts, binds and carries the bound bundle into windrows.
Wire Binder Reaper 1873 Locke
Scientific American July 25, 1896
Wood Cut
First Automatic device on reaper to bind the grain.
Marsh Harvester 1860
Scientific American July 25, 1896
Wood Cut
The First Placing of men upon the machine to do the binding.