Here it is in its entirety, ver­ba­tim from the orig­i­nal — Gen­eral Thanks­giv­ing By the PRESIDENT of the United States Of Amer­ica A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowl­edge the prov­i­dence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grate­ful for His ben­e­fits, and humbly to implore His protection […]

I got my paper back from Dr. Sul­li­van the other night. For some rea­son, as with every­thing in this class the past semes­ter, I’ve been a tad ner­vous when receiv­ing some­thing back that has been graded; it’s just a thing with me, I don’t know why I’m appre­hen­sive about it. And when I got my […]

Each of the men dis­cussed in this paper made a rather remark­able con­tri­bu­tion to the sci­en­tific pur­suits, some more last­ing than oth­ers. McCoy’s inven­tion has prob­a­bly been the one with the longest-lasting sig­nif­i­cance. As was true then, if you don’t lubri­cate an engine it will quit work­ing from the fric­tion. All engines, whether they are […]

While McCoy’s inven­tions earned mil­lions of dol­lars in profit, lit­tle of that money found its way into his pock­ets. Because he lacked the finan­cial back­ing to man­u­fac­ture his lubri­ca­tors him­self in large num­bers he sold many of his patent rights to investors. In return for this he was given only small amounts that allowed him […]

Eli­jah McCoy was the most edu­cated of the three. His par­ents, George and Mil­dred, both run­away slaves, fled to Canada from Ken­tucky. When the Cana­dian rebel­lions of 1837 broke out against Great Britain, George sided in the hos­til­i­ties with the British. After the Red River Rebel­lion, as it was called, was quashed by the Crown, […]