New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-03
NEEDED DISCOVERIES.

Gent gives mechanical avento on oy 10 Pase
laws snd industrial exhibitors ard With the stir ng eot'
prhe which characters It's people is destined to eH'os
from nature more knowledge of her secrs, laws thsa was
ever learned by tny other people Bu. studies ia the mo
chenic ar like studies IN science literature are aptts
center exclusively around certn objects the neglect Of
al others II seems require combination OF all the IN
tectua forces OF age achieve grea discovery %
the alton of great law of nature to the uses OF nsa
Long ago al the science there in the world wased u
self in vain endeavors End in the daily chsngng aspects
of tie starry ornament revelation of the deshnies oil IN
dyiduas and nations Afterwards, aud for whole gens
raon learned men of Different nations taxed the poser
of the ntelecs in eff s to elaborate som, solvent which
should commute che ip and substances into gold
II only within hundred years that knowledge OF
the true methods science has res ed the investigations
ard e1rerments Of scholars aud inventors wtha the LIN
lis of he DO. 81 oes of nsure and contributed results
OF practical value.
In many departments Of mechanical invention We are
wiling believe that the goal VI practicable perfection has
be already reached lngunner fornstsnce when nan
standing good mile off, b. PERFORATED with bullet
discharged from rifle and when shell charged with eK
posvo msersl capable o; scattering ia chaotic reach
whole square OF buildings may DO plunged dowa through
the Middle of parts root from an engine mouncd
81 pointed FIVE miles from il, may well bsieve that IN
the science Of destruction have arrived our un ,tum
as separate moment Of starting from the moment OF
arriving only by short but intense Impotence aud 80
fsr annhisted space, TO make the landscape that
whirls by u, nothing but painful blur of confused
shadows VT might b. wiling TO compounds and give -
little speed for little safety Travelling has not been con-
sdorod so great ser does life have so many other
pressing demands upon Us that We need to achieve our
Journeys the peril Of necks Her. steam devils
enchartmen sold alone BY tho Of which be
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the world it would give that demons power over
theresi bu, since is mat an natural
philosophy taught in all schools since every black
smith and carpenter coDure is aid we stand IN the
same Atns to each other that did bsfre it, invention
The tibet runs away from the officer a, an infinitely faster
than he could twenty years ago. but taxes care to keep
tie ca NJ tine between them al i've hundred miles day.
as at fifty.
10 improve the methods and accelerate the speed OF
transported at present to BE- absorbing the ngo
uuty ofths race Seam Tor loconoton lightning
foI our written words and the winds Of heaven sweeping
clouds Of canvas attached to hshke ships for com
moGites All these Wild forces have been caught and har
need and we IRE ye busy breaking in their r.sive aud
fierce temrers The adaptation Of two OF these agencies
and the acquisition of power hs other are the
inventions of the last half centuryaone suffice to DIS
peuish the age live in Thought and experiment are
still employed watching their operations aud perfectng
their details They viii at lat become as docle in our
bands as tie OK the horse and the safe for tho alb
sence of az independent will
But in order efleduslyt to advance civilization two
discoveries in a different department urgently re
quIed The first is method Of hardening metal so hat
stonn ma be cut by il with the CELEBRITY and
a. we now wood with steel Ii must be supposed that
the rocks which form large part OF the crust and even
Of the surface of the globe intended for the uses OF
man. Wherever great wealth accumulaes either in 'he
hands Of n sovereign people you may see its repre-
sentoton in their enduring structures Of stone. Every
nan would build Of it he able but the labor Of re-
duong 10 the shapes required for hum eddces only
he commanded by the very rich As a thriving town
grows into city, its of inAlmmabe rotten houses
give place to blocks OF brick the city grows wealthy
these piles of bricks give place pillars and walls Of pint
cd granite marble We only use the corpses OF
trees for houses and BY drying aud painting them we
Try 10 srest thr gradual decay. The rains wear and
soften the loose bres the sh,inks and wraps The
wasting surface Millions millions OF value annually
destroy ed the slow decay of houses fences and oher
structures Of wood Houses of stone will for the
uses many generations and only be required
fer the net increase Of the population.
Now seems within the limits of scientific possibility that
method may be discovered of hardening Of the
prose- metals, amalgamaton of some OF them, 10
that boulder from the side of mountain may be saved
into blocks and pillars and beams by means Of machinery
similar to thai used for reducing pine logs panks and
boards II iron upon being heated in carbon be msdo
to change the combination Of its particles 10 become
capable of cutting simple iron, readily a. old ese may
not an additional equivalent Of carton, the addition OF
some known or unknown substance its tenscy
and hardness as make capable Of saving granite
not have any other metals the property OF becoming 50
induraed1 IL is said that the ancient Peruysns wrought
with tools of tempered copper Shall we never re-
gain this lost arti
The oLer great cesideru,urn Is the production of heat
without combustion The accumulation Of population and
power in the weird seem to have BEEN for many centuries
in the colder laiudes aud since the greater part of tho
habiatle globe the par too the whole best adapted 70
support human life Les under the der zones there hs
homes Of The great majority Of the INST continue to
BE- Indeed the Of fire 10 hsve been Of tho
eeres: steps toward civilization In all the northern States
Of ths Union annually expended for fuel than Tor
bread and though speaking without certain data il nigh!
be eItravagan assumption to suppose that there
whole countries IN Europe where the expense Of fuel
greater than that Of food 1t would almost 10 be
Of the date, of the Creator who had fitted mp thus
pane for the abode Of his creatures to venate with air
Of sch temperature would be congeba TO life AZ
sny rate here must be in the mystery Of his laws better
methods Of produsng heat than the combustion oftees
o. coal fpssely stored the amos, inaccessible boz Of
TIE Garth Heef exists In all known substances Il gives
to liquids and uds their form. andchernis.y has discov
cred tie methOd Of releasing ], from each and making
available. IL Is product Of friction and OF the cornbins
ton Of many common substances In the human organize
generated by the combustion Of atmospheric Az
is above in the clouds that retain their yapory consu
uion through the winter and beneath us in the ei tn
keeps up its equab tmpera'ure through all seasons sks-
To day the thernomeisr indicates temperature reHy ae
grc Leer zero .vo days ago the sun and earth oens