The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-26 00:00:00

MODERN INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES.

Yrs.
Mariners' Compass .. .. 1300
Gunpowder .. .. 1250
Paper .. • • • . 1270
Spectacles 1290
Cannon 1300
Printing............ 140
Diving Bell .. .. • • • • 1550
Air Gun 1600
Thermometer, by Galileo .. 1603
Telescope, by Galileo 1609
Microscope, by Galileo .. .. .• 1610
Logarithens, by Napier .. 1614
Circulation of the blood, by Harvey ".. .. 1620
Barometer, by Torricelli .. • • .. 1645
Air Pump, by Otto Guericke; 1650
Law of Gravitation, by Newton .. .. 1665
Phosphorus, by Brandt 1668
Watch-spring, by Huyghens 1675
Ruins of Pompeii .. 1689

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Steam Engine, by Newcombe .. 1705
Blowpipe 1740
Achromatic Telescope, by James Dollond 1759
Spinning Jenny, by Hargreaves .. 1760
Spinning Machine, by Arkwright 1769
Balloons, by the Montgolfiers 1782
Bramah Lock 1781
Argand Lamp 1787
Life Boat, by Greathead 1789
Stereotyping 1800
Jacquard Loom .• 1806
Safety Lamp, by Davy .. .. • . 1816
lilleidescope, by Brewster .. 1817
Calculating Machine, by Babbage.. 1822
Steel Pens • . • • ~ .. .. 1825
Steam Gun, by Perkins 1825
Locomotive, by George* Stephenson .. 1529
[*Mr. Cates, p. 126, puts it by a strange lapsus Robert
Stephenson.]
Lucifer Matches .. • • .. .. 1830
Screw Propeller, by Smith and Ericsson .. 1836
Electric Telegraph 1837
Stereoscope, by Wheatstone .. 1838
Lenticular Stereoscope, by Brewster 1849
Electrotype • • • • • • .. .. 1839
Daguerreotype .. . • • • .. 1839
Steam Hammer, by Nasmytb. . , .. .. 1842
Gun Cotton .. .. ..
.. 1846
Revolver, by Colt s 1850
Chloroform, by Simpson 1850
Spectral analysis, by Kirchof and Bunsen .. 1860
The book is a very hive of information, with rich
stores of the honey of knowledge packed away,
as it were in cells especially contrived for the re-
ception of each individual little drop. A very para-
dise for bee readers of all kinds, whether those
flaunting drones who are too idle for such honey.
hunting themselves, preferring much to have it thus
collected together for their enjoyment, or whether,
on the contrary, it,be those" humble" " busy" ones
who, in the midst of their own habitual toils, taste
perhaps with a keener relish than any others could
do, the luxury of a casual sip, here, on the sly—
namely, the professional man, thesoholar, the work-
ing man of letters, in effect any one seriously and
assiduously engaged in the whirling work of this
age of perpetual industry.

THE CHAMOIS-HUNTER, Mr. Charles Boner, has
started on a tour through Transylvania, the wild sports of
which country will give full occupation to his gun, as the
little known manners and customs will serve to employ his
pen.

" WATERLOO CLARK"—that is Mr. John Clark, so
called from his " Scenes from the Battle of Waterloo,"
sketched by him on the field itself immediately after the
battle—died a few days ago at Edinburgh in his 92d year.
THE CONCERTS OF MR. HENRY LESLIE'S CHOIR
will begin on the 4th (being the anniversary of Mendels-
sohn's death), with a Mendelssohn Evening.
" THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT."—The
Spectator laughs good-humouredly at the Hon. H.
Winter Davis, of Baltimore, who revels in the idea of Admi-
ral Dupont sending his " bombshells over the dome of St.
Paul's, and the ruins of London-bridge tumbling into the
stream below!" Evidently, says our contemporary, Mr.
Davis wishes to play into the hands of Lord Macaulay's
" Maori,'' who from his broken arch will paint the picture,
while Adrsiral Dupont realises it. But if the shells are to
fiy over the dome of St. Paul's the elevation of the mortars
will be somewhat unpractical, like that of Mr. Winter
Davis's oratorical artillery.
TUE LYCEUM THEATRE, after extensive altera-
tions, will open on the 31st inst with "Bel Demonic) (Mr.
Pechter as the hero), when we believe Mr. G. F. Neville, a
young actor of great promise and provincial reputation, will
make his first how to a London audience. Ho is a younger
brother of the talented H. Neville, who has made himself
famous in the " Ticket-of-Leave Man."
The news of the meeting of German Ministers at Nurem-
berg was a surprise, and no pleasant one, to the Prussian
Government, whose diplomatic agents are not generally
renowned for correctness and rapidity of information•-not
very surprising, if we consider the way in which some of
them are appointed. We hear that Gen. Wil'ison, whose
projected appointment to Turin caused so much controversy,
and was finally sent to Rome, is about to return home, not
having been found adequate to the duties of the situation.
It is added that he is not to be reinstated in the post ho for-
merly held at Court, and which it was understood would
for a certain time be kept open for him. The King, it ap •
pears, lately wished to appoint one of his aides-de-camp
Minister at the Hague, that post being vacant, but M. von
Bismark positively objected to a persistence in the plan of
converting respectable generals into bad ministers pleniPo"
tentiary.

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