compiled and edited by Jared Sparks, "The
Works of... Franklin... with Notes and a Life of the Author", 10 vols.
(1836-40); and later by John Bigelow, "The Complete Works of Benjamin
Franklin; including His Private as well as His Official and Scientific
Correspondence, and Numerous Letters and Documents Now for the First
Time Printed, with Many Others not included in Any Former Collection,
also, the Unmutilated and Correct Version of His Autobiography", 10
vols. (1887-88). Consult also James Parton, "The Life and Times of
Benjamin Franklin", 2 vols. (1864); S. G. Fisher, "The True Benjamin
Franklin" (1899); Paul Leicester Ford, "The Many-Sided Franklin" (1899);
John T. Morse, "Benjamin Franklin" (1889) in the "American Statesmen"
series; and Lindsay Swift, "Benjamin Franklin" (1910) in "Beacon
Biographies. On the Patent Office: Henry L. Ellsworth, A Digest of
Patents Issued by the United States from 1790 to January 1, 1839"
(Washington, 1840); also the regular Reports and publications of the
United States Patent Office.

CHAPTER II

The first life of Eli Whitney is the "Memoir" by Denison Olmsted (1846),
and a collection of Whitney's letters about the cotton gin may be found
in "The American Historical Review", vol. III (1897). "Eli Whitney and
His Cotton Gin," by M. F. Foster, is included in the "Transactions of
the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association", no. 67 (October,
1899). See also Dwight Goddard, "A Short Story of Eli Whitney" (1904);
D. A. Tompkins, "Cotton and Cotton Oil" (1901); James A. B. Scherer,
"Cotton as a World Power" (1916); E. C. Bates, "The Story of the Cotton
Gin" (1899), reprinted from "The New England Magazine", May, 1890; and
Eugene Clyde Brooks, "The Story of Cotton and the Development of the
Cotton States" (1911).

CHAPTER III

For an account of James Watt's achievements, see J. Cleland, "Historical
Account of the Steam Engine" (1825) and John W. Grant, "Watt and the
Steam Age" (1917). On Fulton: R. H. Thurston, "Robert Fulton" (1891) in
the "Makers of America" series; A. C. Sutcliffe, "Robert Fulton and
the 'Clermont'" (1909); H. W. Dickinson, "Robert Fulton, Engineer and
Artist; His Life and Works" (1913). For an account of John Stevens, see
George Iles, "Leading American Inventors" (1912), and Dwight Goddard, "A
Short Story of John Stevens and His Sons in Eminent Engineers" (1905).
See also John Stevens, "Documents Tending to Prove the Superior
Advantages of Rail-Ways and Steam