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Domestic News
May 26, 1795
The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Mr. Perkins of Newbury-Port has nearly completed engines for cutting nails, enabling a boy to cut 3000 nails per day and a seven-year-old to head 100,000 per day.
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Among the geniuses this country has produced, few stand higher in the mechanical line than a Mr. PERKINS of Newbury-Port; who has nearly completed his engines for cutting nails. This ingenious piece of Machinery, it is said, will enable a boy to cut 3000 nails in a day, and the heading, which is in general a tedious operation, can be performed by a lad of seven years, at the rate of one hundred thousand per day.
What sub-type of article is it?
Invention
Machinery
What keywords are associated?
Mr Perkins
Nail Cutting Engines
Newbury Port
Mechanical Invention
Nail Production
What entities or persons were involved?
Mr. Perkins
Where did it happen?
Newbury Port
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Newbury Port
Key Persons
Mr. Perkins
Outcome
machinery enables a boy to cut 3000 nails in a day and a lad of seven years to head one hundred thousand per day.
Event Details
Mr. PERKINS of Newbury-Port has nearly completed his engines for cutting nails, an ingenious piece of machinery.