Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Doylestown Democrat, 1816-1916: With Biographical Sketches of the Editors; In Commemoration of the First Century of the Existence of the Doylestown DemocratIt is a long way from the sickle and the flail of our grandfathers to the farming machinery of today. It is still a longer way from the spinning wheels of our grand mothers to our great manufacturing plants; from the gig and the stage coach to the automobile and the pullman; from the sail ships to the dreadnoughts and giant liners from the tallow dip to the tungsten electric lamp; from the Washington hand press to the modern Hoe. The century has almost eliminated space to lengthen time. The remarkable inventions by which man has been able to harness the forces of earth, sea and air stagger evolution and stamp the century as the marvel of civilization itself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.