The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-15 00:00:00

FRENCH IRTENTIOSS.

The prizes awanled this year by the Socifte
rEntouragrmont pour (industne Nationale for in-
ventions and improvements in manuf acturen have just been
published. Gold modal. were awarded To 11. J. Dub me fir
basing executed the [het portable atereencope, thus render-
ing the use of that inemnient extremely easy. Stereoscopes
em now mold in France to the amount of nevem] million, of
francs. To M. Gm Pin, the inventor of a precut of pelf-
ing breaks fur railway trains. When the Joker has Ant
off tho steam and taken the usual precaution@ for stopping
the train, the effect is, that the nearer the corteges aro to
the tender, the rinser they epproacit each ether, so that,
while the last and forded eehichts of the train are still apart,
the buffer, of the first and second have already met, and their
shafts ere driven further in than those of the third, fourth,
doe. This cheutusteuro 1141, been turned to account by
11. Guirin, for the buffers act upon his break while
they are being driven in, and lb.. break nsammee its former
position its soon as the train has 'stopped, in counequence
of
the gradual action of the springs of the buffer", '1 hese
breaks aro now extensively weal on the Orients Railway.
irn M. I. Pierre, Pmfresor of Chemistry at Caen, for his re-
searches into the efficacy of marine manuren. To M. Pritx-
Sollier, • manufacturer of Indio-rubber for hating
re-dismvered •method (previously found, but neglected, by
MM. Saco and Jonas in 1145) I.e trensfonning linseed oil
into a substance resembling, crienichoue, by treattrigit with
nitric acid. This new compound is now nisplicat for ranking
waterproof stuffs, saddlcry, ste. To MM. Oaard and Au-
bert for • process by which cnniatchooe may without under-
going a previous dissolution, bo rolled
outinto thin leaves.
threads, or pipe.. They ales are the inventor& of
the alrelisation of that substance, • proem witleb
renders it lees brittle and tonal stronger than
vulcanised canatehoue. To MM. Perreaux and Clair
to tho former fot his India-rubber vette' and other int. '
provementn in imtrument making; and to the latter for a
new kind of dynamometer. Medals of platinum were given
to M. D,rrieo, for his tuannfaulnye of artificial manure of in-
variable fertilising power; and to M. E. Moller, for a work
en agricultural end workmen's. habitations. Silver swime
wens awarded to Mr. Stanley, for the manufacture of articles
In Walt and lava; to M. Dnmennil, for an improved plas-
ter kiln; to M. nendonnet, fir inaproventents in pienefortm;
to M. Triton, for a Faxen of aquatint smehingon stone, ind-
Wing Indian ink drawings; to MM. Cayenne and Colas, for
gilt mils and • machine for melting them; to Dr. Genet, for a
centrivance for washing foul linen by pressure; to Dr.
Guyot, for • loom for weaving at a very trailing coat straw
mete for gardening ; and to M. Klein, for •
planter mailing and nutritious food to the poor In
portions of the value of five centime* each. Bronze MALI/
were awarded to AI. do Luca, for all improvement in blow-
pipes, producing an uninterrupted ',tavern of air by MORIN, of
a hollow bell of India-rubber meting an a reservoir ; to M.
Trnecon, for an improvement in the lamps called moderators;
to MM. lAcsamene and Thieve, far a regulator applicable to
the electric light ; to M. Bruno, for • writing *pp...ratan fur
blind people, emanating in a steel point,
for
letters in relief on a kind of paper wed for coon-
terdrewing ; to M. Mame, of Tarn, • blind man,
for • curious and ingenious oentrivence, by whiA
those who, like hint, have had the misfortune to
love their eye-sight, may express their Ideas on paper by
means of printing types; to M. Coked Vienot, for en appa-
ratus enabling the blind to write Mtlfie : to M. Devistne, the
well-known gunsmith, for an improvement in revolvers, by
applying to them the principle of the Minie rifle; to Mr.
%Mud, a carpenter, foe an instrument by which the cubic
contents of timber or trees may lie ascertained offhand ; to
J. Families, for a bed of • peculiar contrivance fur patients
to M. Heilbronn, fcw a Foam by which riot may receive a
coating of paint as durable as time which may be given to
sheet-iron; to M. More, for a flexible globe for the study of
CrPby, admitting of its being folded up like an tint-
to MM. Lena and Honderd. for a sytem of pedals
and counter-pedalo in pianos, by which the highest notes
may be simultaneously combined with the lowest ; and
lastly, to M. Tigre, for es-egonomital proems el baking
bredua—Geknont.

MARIB2S.