New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-24
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Industry. Inventions and Discoveries.

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Oood creatures. but 20 slow" Gays Browning. This
country is destined TO be the great workshop
and o'a;er of the globe holding that rellioo to
ude and barbarous nations that Great Britain nov
does. A blind. mistaken policy, Incapable or mis-
;udrpr legislators misguided popular aspirations, may
long delay that consummaton BY causing our progress
in Art and Industry to be caprcous, irregular BY leaps
rather than systema.ic and unbroken, but the oobsan
NATION N only be delayed, not prevented. With the
most intelligent ingenious, effective hbonng elass %
the globe-one TO whom Labor-Sering IN Whatever
denar,uept constant study ard The arena OF innu
persble triumphs-wth cheap abundant food and the
largest command of materiss-t must be that ve
shan ecu more manufactures than we buy before the
cose Of another bali century. Dear labor has not pro-
vented our grading railroads and growieg corn cheaper
than DO those countries which pay their lsborers but
onefourth 10 oneeighih per day the wages averaged
among us; We already make Nails, Screws, Pms.
Fanpels Gas, inleres Drills Sheetings, Books, News
papers and hundred other things, a. cheap rs any
other people in spite Of our deareT labor and tins
cheapness of American fabrication, which now seems
rather the exception must become the rule ere many
years To this end, need time and experience We
need also just seli-cOnfdence and patriotic resolu-
ton TO encourage our own. .
Circumstances favored the establishment aud RAPID
growth of tie ClOck manufacture among u-. and now
no other nation on earth is so amply 50 cheapty
supplied with clocks our own. fancy CLOCKS
be .tiil imported we know lat export many more.
aud could undersen the clock-mskers Of almost any
country In their own marts. Circumstances have
favored the development OF Matchmaking in this
country: hence though there il good reason Why
we should not make own watches as generally md
as cbeapy as our clocks have scarcely begun to 10
So few watches were made here during the war Of
1872 and at other tnes-generaly rusty sod service
able though not snowy article-but enterprise aud
apital we're attracted toward this importan.
branch of industry that at the beginning Of the los.
year, there were probably not thousand American
made watches in the world, while we had imported Of
watches and parts thereof no less than $35 il33is
worth at Custom House valuation between 1925 and
1855, and probably fully One Hundred Millions worth
at horest v.us,ons since the formation of our Unioa
Jus. prior TO July last importing 81 the rate
of some Five Millions worth per annum.
Ought this importation TO continue and increase
We surely think not.
Within short lime past, an extensive mauufsctory
of Watches has been established al Waltham, Massa-
chusetts-tha; of Messrs. Appleton, Tracy & Co.
This mandatory combines the outset al the best
achievements Of Art and Genius in tbe ad of watch
making in the Old World with some improvements
based on IDEAS dstinctivey American. 1t is supplied
with power by twelve horse-stesm engine. It carries
the division Of labor to the highest practical point
Esch part in watch Of particular size OF humber
is the fac ssti Of the Ike part in every other watch
of that maker that be who breaks or loses hand
or pin, or wheel chain, has only send the number
OF his vstch TO the factory and the missing psrt can
o. seIt him by return ma with infaible accuracy.
Any ssiul nsnipulator after brief tutoring might
b. trusted TO make up and put together new watch
out Of tie various parts fabricated with great rspdty
by the hundred male ard female operatives employed
IN the factory, with moral certainty ha; il woni CO.
and, with little regulation, keep good time. The fact
that needed p1 can be readily and surely replaced
Al moderate price, should give the homemade wsteh
decided preference over the imported. 1t is ceri-
fed moreover to be of excellent quality ana moderate
cost or pnce: but these points, the public muss
inquire and Judge. We heartily wish success TO Amer
ican Matchmaking.
CHURSs.-The records Of the Patent Office show
thar npoyes and inventors have directed more a,teo-
ton to perfectirg the common churn than to almost
anything else. 1t s true that washing machines may
claim to be equal favorites, 80 thst taking the two
together pstetts have been granted and more an,
picstions rejected for these two common domestic ms
chimes than for ten Of kind The changes
upon the churn have been almost endless Every con-
ceivable variation u the shape or Arrangement of the
dsshers has been patented. Others have coutendek
that fresh ar mu-t be admitted during the pieces Of
ehurHg, hence the numerous atmospheric chuTns
which have been made and sold some OF them to the
great pecun;ary profit OF the maker and the greater
disappointment OF the purchaser. 0thers have pinned
hen faith upon the Temperature and hence the ther
noneter churr Others have contended for gslvanIsm
a. An active agent in producing butter, and benee zinc
churns and zinc pans have been extensively Introduced
snd used BY farmer. This mania for improving the
churr has 10: ceased but smo-t active o. a: any
former PERIOD Patent churns have beea sold in such
immense numbers that many Of their inventors have
grown r;ch upon their patents. churn costs but IL.
tie, and IT b thing and promises largely 90
most new things do, the dairymsn buys without
much hesitation. 1t may be safely corjectured that
nearly every farmer now has half dozen churns %
hand, i've Of which he never uses thus showing hss
he has been succe~ively disappointed in his efforts To
Obtain machine fulfilling al the conditions Necessary
to Constitute convenient and rshsbe churn
From this statement Of the position OF the ehan
business. 4 may be fairly presumed tha. something
yet wanting. Indeed il may be reasonably ecubtsd
whether any Of the makers Of chuns hsve understood
the true theory Of converting cream into buts. ss1
teat thn ignorance the cause u 90 many eAzrns b.
ne invented 10 found. To docbs tasi the word. fsr
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