Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-12-02

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Another Tribute to American Inventive
Genius.
Literary men have complained that
the American mind is deficient in orig
iaolity. We have as yet produced no
great epic, and made no remarkable
strides in raising up standard national
literature. But the American mind,
finding ample stores in the literature Of
ancient and modern times, has turned
its wits TO the production of something
of more practical utility than the songs
of poets and the speculations of phiIos
ophers. 1t has built ships which have
outstripped those Of any other nation
in point Of speed; and the advantages
possessed by our cruisers in that par
ticular, during the last war with Great
Britain, and before steam was over
thought Of as a motive power i'll naval
warfare, will ever remain a marked fea-
ture Of that war. American genius has
originated marine engines, machine
reapers, sewing machines, and various
other mechanical productions that go
to save labor, and help the world along
in 4 career of progress and improve
ment.
But this is not all. The history Of
valuable inventions, by which America
in general, and American inventors and
artizans il particular, have won endur-
ing fame, is not yet ended. There is
still room for more of the same sort
There is room for impr0CeDentj and it
is a noticeable feature of patent office
records, that many inventions are q
mere improvement on preceding ones.
There is room for Improvement in
the manufacture Of ac0tches. A watch
has become an indispensable necessity
with many people, and with many more
an indispensable ornament or cade NE
cum. But a watch of good quality as
q reliable time-keeper, is not so com
mon. Most watches will frequently de-
viate from true time, or get out OF order,
independently of accidents. The value
of watches and watch works imported
into the United States is about S., 0O0,-
600 per annum, exclusive Of many more
which evade the custom house ; and it
is estimated that an equal sum is ex-
pended in repairs upon defective
watches. European watches, being
chiefly made by hand, are necessarily
very liable to be defective, as the slight
est deviation in size, length or form Of
any part of the intricate mechanism
must impair it's value, if not render it
utterly useless.
But it has been reserved to Ameri-
can, or rather Yankee genius, to rem
edy these defects, and construct abso-
lutely and uniformly perfect watch
movements, By machinery, with little
more of human labor than is necessary
to pass the numerous parts from one
machine TO another. Each Of these ma
chimes has its peculiar Office to perform,
doing its special work to q guage or
pattern with an exactness which handi-
craft cannot equal. With the excep
ton of the ieweled holes and the pivots
that run i'll them, nothing is left to the
eye or the touch of the workman, for
the machinery impresses its own I'M
erring precision upon the whole.
= No one has yet come forward to claim
the special honor of this valuable i'm
provement; but large establishment
for the manufacture of watches by ma
ch,ncry is i'll successful operation in
Waltham, Mass, the home of Gov.
Banks. A correspondent of the N. y
Times, after a minute description OF this
establishment and it's workings, closes
with the following trite remarks:
mo one who examines the operations of this
company can doubt that revolution impend,
in the watch manufacturing of the world foi
by the American machinery watch-movement>
without cases are already produced at inst about
One-haf the cost Of imported movements ei
similar grade, while the former have necessari,
ly the advantage of uniform reliability. Surely
it will be just cause for congratulatiom if th.
highly useful American enterprise shall hav,
the effect of driving ont Of market the thou
sands of trashy articles miscalled time-ke pers
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