New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-14
INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES.

INTENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES.
It's n noticeable fact that the sagnaon .! business
produces no dminuon in the number of patents issued
from the Patent Office. This would seem to argue
that inventors form body who escape unframed ron
the disasters of commercial revulsion and that IN the
quiet seclusion Of the workshop and the laboratory
they prosecute their useful labors untS,urbed by the
chaos which is raging without. As general PROPOSE
ton this is strictly true. They know that business
will eventually revive; that it requires time to eiabo-
rate and prepare for market simple invention;
that at most it costs very small sum OF money to
secure patent and that Of se-notwithsiand-
ing the feeble protection given to them by the patent
lawe-sOmeiimes turn up extremely lucrative invest
ments. Then again, the business of invention has
become an organized employment with muttudes OF
ingenious men in this country. The rewards when
some inventors have realized from small beginnings
have been in some almost fabulous, while others
If amusing insignifcance have reaped handsome
competency. These successes become known to the
general BODY, and nfuse stimulus to oil, while
they swell its ranks by attracting within the circle
other ingenious spirits, Whose inventive faculties are
shsrpened and developed by the rich rewards they
so easily secured by others whom lucky thought has
suddenly unlocked mine of gold. Mr.. McCormicks
Reaper realized profit of over $2,O0OOOO, and the
famous Baby Jumper made s inventor rich. The little
eyer.ponted Pencil which we carry in our pockets
cleared its author 100000 and the inventor OF an iron
Huskng Thimble, one of the simplest and cheapest
affairs ever thought Of is now selling 100000 annually.
All these successes to Increase the number of n
ventcrs to stimulate them to renewed effort, and the
result is seen in the continually increasing business of
the Patent Office which financial sringency seems
able TO interrupt or lessen.
Another noticeable fact is, that while some men are
unable to suggest an idea, they are quick to seize upon
the suggestions of others and carry them out success
fully. This is strkirgly shown in numberess medern
instances that nigh, be cited. The first Mower and
Reaper has been followed by some thirty Others ~
with the Sewing Machine the Telegraph the Cylinder
Printing Press There evidently two faculties re.
CURED TO constitute the capacity
TO originate or suggest, and the capacity to construct
or csny out But it is seen that they are seldom com.
bined in one individual. When they are, as in the
Reaper, and the Telegraph invariably the most
oyershadowfhg results. Yet their separation, or the
possession Of faculty by act of minds aud of the
other by another works TO the general
public. The proprietors of The London Times, when
embarrassed by the difficulty of getting of their morn
inc edition in time for the public breakfast table, could
do TO than suggest that in presses
was desirable and this suggestion resulted in the pro.
ducton Of the fIst Cylinder Press Whitney, Cotton
Gin originated under circumstances precisely similar
Southern planter suggested TO Yankee schoolmas-
ter that TO pick the cotton clear OF seed by
hand than il WAS worth. The suggestion was every
thing 10 the schoomaster, because he possessed the
faculty to construct and carry out Hence the sugge
tive faculty should be classified as OF almost equal
value with the inventive faculty; and he who furnishes
the great Lody Of American inventors with food for
thought confers an obligation on them which few VIII
be willing TO deny.
TURrsBryG by STrAN.-Porabe or locomotive
steam threshng machines have been introduced among
the farmers of the West during the present season.
Such machine was great public want, aud IL mas
been successfully worked in Ohio Reference here
made to the engine, not to the thresher. IL was p"'
at ClllcotLe and come xix or egbthaye already been
made and put in use The crop OF Or. WAITS CONSIST,
irg Of 3s7 acres of wheat, was successfully treShe"
cut BY steam the engine being taken on IT'S own "hee
into the wheat-feld. IL does the work oil ten horss,
the cost Of which would be greater than that Of the en
cine-so there is saving OF capital TO Degh WIN.
TIE owrers of the machine charge tive cents DuS"'i
for ,hreshipg and furnish three men with The nacne'
the farmer contributing whatever additional neP may
lie REQUIRED The machine threshes 100 bushels per
hour. or 200 bushels per day, allowing for stoppage''
Th. is equal TO the work of70 men with the HAL. De-
side iii. saving there is tie great additional advantage
Of being able to get til. whole of large crop nmedi-
,te,y into market, From this farm the owner OF the
macLr. baued l. TO another close by where 10 acres
Of whoa, were TO be threshed; thence to two other
o,rs # 200 acres each and thence to another Of 800
acres Here were some 800 acres Of wheat in the
hands Of only FIVE propretors. SO completely does
,Ls ocbiue perform its work that it is quite certain
,e,v large number must come into Il has been
ms, % with all other good agricultural machines
The County Of pickaway, Olio, contains 800 mowers
and resper-, and the County Of Ross about the same
ruuter Il is estimated that these two counties will
require Thirty team threskers 10 thresh an average
wheat crop-and that tie united savings Of all these
machines VIII lie equal TO tie Labor Of 1860 men
Steam poreLnr, painting and cultiYatiug must come
ue2.. Witt f,id these operations open mp for tae
pgen-;y az American iuyeutcisl
CIctR MtcHiSSs.-Il The world owes any debt OF
gratitude for the discovery of tobacco IL Il due TO
America. portion % the debt IS due 10 he III
yel;Or OF :he cigar shd DC, 100, was an American.
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