...methods. Writing in 1865, Peto, a keen English observer, made the following comment on this tendency: " Mechanical contrivances of every sort are produced...in any employment in which some cheap and efficient labor-saving machine does not now to some extent replace them." The extent to which machinery was supplementing...

...1881. Writing in 1865, Peto, a keen English observer, made the following comment on this tendency: " Mechanical contrivances of every sort are produced...supply the want of human hands. Thus we find America 395 producing a machine even to peel apples; another to beat eggs ; a third to clean knives ; a fourth...

...Coxe, writing about 1813, referred to this ability, and Sir Morton Peto, writing in 1865, declared: Mechanical contrivances of every sort are produced...to clean knives; a fourth to wring clothes; in fact there is scarcely a purpose for which human hands have been ordinarily employed, for which some ingenious...

...country." Sir Morton Peto, writing about 1865, discussed the inventive spirit which had long been obvious: Mechanical contrivances of every sort are produced...clean knives; a fourth to wring clothes; in fact, there is scarcely a purpose for which human hands have been ordinarily employed, for which some ingenious...

...Americans were making machines to do almost everything. "We find America producing a machine," he said, "even to peel apples; another to beat eggs; a third...fourth to wring clothes; — in fact, human hands" are being replaced everywhere by machinery. If the same English observer should visit the United States...