Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — Mechanic Buried in Westminster. [ARTICLE]

Mechanic Buried in Westminster.

Notwithstanding all that Britain owes to mechanics, there is but one workman who received the'' highest funeral honors of being burled in Westminster abbey, and that was George Graham, a famous scientific instrument maker of his day, who In 1700 invented the dead-beat escapement in clocks. Graham’s obsequies were attended by the Royal society in & body. Heroic measures are several sixes too large for the average man.