The figures in the picture are (left to right) Dr. William
T. G. Morton (ether as an anesthetic), James Bogardus (cast-iron fireproof
building), Samuel Colt (revolver; pistol on box at left), Cyrus H. McCormick
(reaper; model on floor at lower left), Joseph Saxton (fountain pen, “ever-pointed”
pencil, and many other inventions), Charles Goodyear (vulcanization of
rubber; overshoes under his chair), Peter Cooper (“Tom Thumb,”
first locomotive in United States), Jordan L. Mott (coal-burning cooking
stove), Joseph Henry (experiments in electricity, first Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution), Eliphalet Nott (thirty patents on stoves and
boilers), John Ericsson (first screw-propelled man-of-war), Frederick
E. Sickels (drop cut-off for steam engines), Samuel F. B. Morse (telegraph;
model on table), Henry Burden (horseshoe machine; model partially concealed
by Hoe; and “rotary concentric squeezer” for rolling puddled
iron into bars), Richard Hoe (cylinder press and type-revolving press),
Erastus B. Bigelow (power loom for carpets; sketch on wall at right),
Isaiah Jennings (friction match, threshing machine, and many other inventions),
Thomas Blanchard (tack-making mchine and multipurpose lathe; behind sewing
machine, lower left), Elias Howe (sewing machine; model at his feet).
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