New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-01-19
Nr. Ewbsnis's Annual Report NJ Commissioner
nI nnienis.

This Report Part / has just been LAID before
Congress, and We are confident that no document
II equal interest aud importance to Inventors and
the mechanical aud manufacturing classes general
" has ever been Published 1t is confined strictly
20 Arts and Manufactures, or matters relating 10
Inventions Patents Mechanical Progress, SC. sc
leaving the wide domain Of Agriculture, ii' inter
ests progress aud improvement Tor distinct lie
port at some time hereafter The Report before
us vii make "a Congressional document oi som,
200 pages, ia every line ovinclng thorough mas
terry cf the whole subject OF mechanical invention
and a capacity To render the Patent Office p"'pa
BILE and signal blessing TO Inventors and the whole
country IL needs but 10 bo read 10 confirm the
general impression that the choice Of Mr. Ewbsnk
for COMMISSIONS of Patents was among the hap
pest selections oi the present OF OF any Admins
LratiOn Tho several topics discussed are present
el under six distinct heads. as ALLOWS
Finances and Statistics OF the Patent Office
II Inventions and Claims.
Ill Examiners and Machinlsts Reports
w Origin aud Progress of laNenuou.
v TEE MoroRs Chief Levers OF Civilization.
vi Proposed Applications oi tho Patent Fund
Publication OF Specifications .. General
Index OF Inventions , Institution OF Ma
tional PriKcs.
VII Historical Notices Ot Inv ent,ons-irom ar
chves ct the States, &c.
VIII Ca the Propulsion OF Steamers.
We venture To say that Part WIN has had ID
equal IN scientific and practical valae Ia any proVI
Gus issue from tho Patent Office o this any other
country. Mr. Ewbank vigorously and carefully
sorutinizes the agencies of rupulsion employed
in the great Ocean Steamers now traversIus The
Atlantic the Gulf aud the Pacdc and Drorc,, a.
there be such thing abstract sclca,hc demon
STRATUM, that bv a simple modification OF the PAL
die Wheels a very great increase Of speed m the
movement Of these steamers might at once be AT
tanned He shows that there is sn actual waste o
power in a paddle wheel equal TO the aggregate
thickness OF the paddles CO buckets and that anl
stisinshs dinsinuti0a ol that thickness would Sc
cure corresponding increase OF speea. lie shows
also tia, the efficiency Of the paddles IS Increased
in proportion to their length 90 distance from the
center. Illustrating and confirming has positions 10y
drswiags II various birds and fishes. showing that
the swift birds have all onc poln,ed wings, While
the slow aud heavily hyins birds have wings nioch
sborteI and sqGaTer so the swift fishes agree m
having wide c&adal IN with a slender ooniorna
noa seove It. while the comparatively clumsy tshes
maintain nearly the same sirc from the boiy - The
extremity oi the csaasl FIN
We can Al this late hour, aud with our columns
crowded 10 reple;oe, barely glance alta few Of the
more important heads @, tins Report Under VI
NJ Ewbal,k demonstrates on behalf Of the Invent
os. against the diversion og the fund wrenchcd
nom them nv the PA,ent Laws to the construction
Of pahlc buildings Nr miscellaneous asses Fifty
thousand dollars were thus taksn last year from
the Paten, Fund Producing it BY So much nom
she s2lS 46s On hand tho Is; Of January.
'.sl and 9 the Completion q the building called
the Patent oAice ba, actually devoted 10
a vsrsssv nj public uses VIII cost some Hal
/. Million more. absorbing the whole fund now
existing and all that may ho rcaared ioF msay
wears 70 oone. Mr. EwhsRk fOr1ey protests
against this. and urges the restoration q past
sAsrscnoas and the conservation OF the entFs
find hencesorth 70 the encouragement and isc'h
tat.oa .. the cs,qis x Inventors To tins end he
nrpposes, l. regular annual p0h.,cati @, the
specifcatiG.s AID DRAWINGS ol all pew Inventions
? the publication OF Gcnersl Aualyti and De
.cr:p,ivc Index ~ Inventions at estimated oos,
o( $1,000; 3 The lNsTrVTIo> oF National
psrxIvns roK NEW DiscovERiEs Of transcendeni
value and eniurin, hcnehccnce. We mast AJAX e
room here foe ono extract from the CcmIassionc' 5
RepHt- He says;
The pse-eat I.nlcs n BE- uemoS4nle ss Ne cras
eta u Inc o. gaEe and sIcai motogsoue shs ass o =
with true ledge c( Tire true desirN % man NaoI
hss cent kaencc ;rcaghca I've ennre ercSS " ooias
farsats anil UNNECESSARILY exceeded bar ~ rsespeccS
Nth II has TIE true Interpretation O. Sfeaioas PNNes
fof arts and sexnces lcs neglected are aow reos
n.Ied a. MYERS q lie Otherwise sugssa and ss
ME wosid Cisiiizsso@ which before VAS sSSnSa axe
poaIs cTalxiaK streAins that widen. deePc sEe
grow rapid they stvazSe
n = dpty &teve that .; all other pcope. 70 ASST "
MS renovation q he rzcc To proSt BY car pEtvfegos a.
We o0gs, shosh ssrrsss eleEs both IN science and
sat ~ waN ao<gs astuca worihi tsry c1itsc aise
IA ed sefsA M shs seei peav~saos fvu external