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| "It was near Thanksgiving Day
of 1884, and I decided to use the holiday in the
construction of the wooden model. I went to the grocer's
and selected a box which seemed to me to be about the
right size for the casing. It was a macaroni box, so I
have always called it the macaroni box model. For keys I
procured some meat skewers from the butcher around the
corner and some staples from a hardware store for the key
guides and an assortment of elastic bands to be used for
springs. When Thanksgiving day came, I got early and went
to work with a few tools, principally a jack knife" "I soon discovered that there were some parts which would require better tools than I had at hand for the purpose, and when night came I found that the model I had expected to construct in a day was a long way to be complete or in working order. I finally had some of the parts made out of metal, and finished the model soon after New Year's day, 1885." |
