New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-06-15
AMERICAN INGENUITY.

An English paper publishes d series of leo
lures on American Ingenuity, recently delivered
in England by Capt. McKinnon, of the British
Navy. The following is an extract
He thought there was something original in
the American mind, and that, as far as inyen-
ton went, they were the first in the world:
This was to be attributed to various causes, and
they were more inventive than the English for
the following reasons If o man invented any
thing in this country. he was looked upon Us .
protector, and his efforts did not meet with en-
couragement but there, if he invented any
thing, ever SO little, he was looked upon as !
great man, taken in hand by influential men,
and made a fortune. He knew several who had =
amassed large sums, from e 1900 to s2O,OOO. Il
He would like to see an Englishman do that
he would be laughed at il be expected IT,
THE first Invention he could speak Of, was
one that amused him very mulch. He saw .
large ship which was coming to Europe With
wheat, and alongside was . very curious thing,
like u mud machine, and several bags full Of
grain. lie was very much astonished, and vent
on board to examine the machine, which he
found to be grain ELEVATOR, which was intsnded
| to pump the grain from the barges into the big
| ship. He at first laughed at it, and thought "
| to be Yankee invention and fib, but when he
4 got On board, he found that it pumped the gralg
4 at such m awful pace, that it almost drowned
him before he got up the hatchway He found
it delivered 10000 bushels per hour. Sup
pose said the speaker, pointing TO the ceiling.
| there was great hole there--it would send
the grain at such an awful pace, that We
shouldn't all get out-for we should be drowned,
quite half of u.s.
g The next thing that struck him as an inge
NOUS matter, was at Cincinnati, where the hogs
killed in the Western States last year for expor-
tation were 954, ,O00 There was man there
| who had discovered method Of making gas out
of hogs lard 1t seemed a funny thing, hut it
was fact The Mayor of Milwaukee city, IN
Wisconsin, who was a great friend of his, actu-
ally told him he was making bargain with tue
man to light the town with gas out Of hogs lard.
He certainly did not live there long enough to
see it himself, but he was told it was trae, and
he believed it. Another invention was zinc
paint, which he described as being most beauti-
full and worth a trial by all present.
''Another very ingenious thing he had WIT
messed at the patent office in Washington. It
; was pointed out to him by gentleman, but he
could not describe it. 1t had large handle to
it, and he asked what it was, when he said 1t
was a sewing machine which could make severn
teen pairs Of pantaloons a day, but it was then
cut Of order and would not work, and he did
. not see il himself, and he could not, therefore,
vouch for its, accuracy, but he believed it6n1R
true. ss1ss
: had large dairy. containinA Wards g al,e
; Get s them milked, he set Wits to work, and
invented q milking mae fies With India rub
!, ber, gutta percha, and he milked them
. = ssThs captain sssd his audience BY relating
s the effects Of = milking machine upon the
Q COWS, and dea1 ia that the down east Yankees
|, we're the "a inventive people possible. and
' were mon Gously clever fellows They had 2
d good sto1 there which was too good % be lost,
n and ii an astonishing matter. The Yankss
q babied |Shen not eating or sleeping, were stin
doing Dmething, and this was what they were q
,e thin NC about-ths Yankee asserted That the
1 ba7j was rolling its eyes round and thinking
rtd MI 10 improve the cradle. He thdaght thai
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