Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1898 — A Mechanic in Westminster. [ARTICLE]

A Mechanic in Westminster.

Notwithstanding all that Britain owes to mechanics, there is only one workman who received the highest funeral honors of being buried 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 a body. The largest block of marble ever sent out of East Tennessee was shipped by way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to New England during the first week in March. It was consigned to Norcross Bros., at East Cambridge, Mass., and it weighed 45.000 pounds. It was quarried near Knoxville.