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English. The mowers, rakes, harvesters and lawn-mowers, are American.
Such are some of the American ideas which would attract the attention of the ordinary visitor in passing down the Machinery Hall of the Exposition. Doubtless the specialist in almost any department would find others, but these, numerous and prominent in themselves, are the more striking, because they do not appear to be matched by corresponding invention on the part of the various nations which have adopted them.
Undoubtedly our superiority is due to two causes : our higher grade of education and our patent system. In education they are rapidly improving. In special technical education they are to-day our superiors ; and they can adopt our patent system.
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