New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-24
INDUSTRY IyyEYT1oNASDDIScoVERY

letters petert, u can be no logger '"uo"So 80
rIos bss tsken its pl,ce anorg tue se.t. sna riga
employ merit. Of our country There are usny 'es'O"
70, this. Modern inventors us irhci:ey bster cared
sor both by tie public sni the Government tat were
.to,s Of bslf century sgo Then, our population VS.
haned and .parsely scattered over nNros oe' VI
.esbosra srt the journey through i, 70 resca tns
c.t,.r. of population. Was expensive ard perioas.
There VS.. 70 propere CT activity in business TO make
iuyet.icrs ssesbe-ro s.irripg densrd for anything
new and useful TIE ilugsisoness Of the old 'olorii
s.vsn bao not been overcome. Tntn, sgAin, the lsT
was deplorsby incompetent TO protect Inventors IN tie
erioymsrt CT their rights. Patents were violated or
i, f,,te.d in the most shameless manner. Wnitneys
ussti6ctn. conception OF the Cotton Gin was stolen
from him by hundreds Of pirstes ard though he aided
untold million 10 the value OF the South her ci-zens
did little elae thsn rob BIN By system-.o comona-
tor 10 refuse him yer ic. wherever case OF IN
ftipsem.n, CAGE 70 tiia. His who.e life Was career
Of miselsbls is aon N tie vain pursui. asr common
;u.tce ard lie close was dsrksned by poverty. Fitch
Jared 10 better. His embsGsssments were aggravated
BY corstant necessity Of defending bic patents agairs'
infringement But modern pstsntees pursue their
vocation under laws which sfJrd them much more
eciert protection, thoughthey are even yet e1remsy
defective Population has extended beyond the Mlssis-
tppi vsst cities have been built up in the Interior, and
an active market for paerted inventions bas gro oSn mp
over an III nerse extent Of territory Access to every
par. Of it is chespy and e1peditiously secured oy
stesnboss and railroads. Bulky m,chines, espec'aly
those for agricultural purposes, are seen ped up on
svery Wsste,n steamboat moviug from the workshop
70 the purchaser The surprising efficiency OF many OF
these pstepted inventions has Impressed the public
mind N favor of ts.ver msy be new 10 the Nts, and
di:posed 10 purchs freely quick msrket for al
ueful conrvanees has, in Consequence, been cIea'ed,
in which msny inventors have acquired large fortunes
| The oriens model Of Woodworths celebrated p'snng
machine, when fret exhibited was crude, imperfect,
ard inc ciept conriv ance which psned the board by
| rurripg it through its edge. It was exhored al
Philadelphia in this imperfect condition. and there al
ireenous echsnic removed 's cruditlee and orousn
| Il out perfect mschine. 1t proved In the END Tue
mos ucrstve patert which has ever been Issued under
spy government The gross earnings snounted for
several years to 81 100000 per aunum. Msnny
reapipr machine row nets the owners of the patent
500 900 per anrum; Bgeows pstents, $4,000 Coils
FIRE arms have yielded profit Of million, and the
various Irdiarubb.r patents have produced, and are
| row producing returns even more fabulous. HoTes
patent for a sewipg machine, nearly expired,
though il remained unproductive for neatly ten years
DOW nets him sOO 900 annually. lis thus sesn thst
prominent invention, if properly introduced to the
| public is enormously productive. But minor inven-
tor more frequently made the sure stepping etone
| 10 a competency. Though the world would seem TO De
full Of chuIns ard washing machines, yet from churns,
| ard washing nscbinee, ard tee-hlves aud even
clothes.prs industrious now making fortunes
The public are always ready for good hng and oi.en
even for poor one. These constantly recurring IN
stances of success hsve roussd the inventive genus OF
our coun rymen to active and systematic prosecution
Of the business of invention regular employment
The records of the Patent Office afford abundant evil
derce of this Its revenue is continually the in-
orese and the business transacted within it's walls is
every year becoming OF more Importance end value to
the community
| rrvr Onr1r, rvnr.-Tiio scientific world w
greatly interested, some two years ago, By the an-
Ltmcement that native iron in pure state hsd besn
discovered in Liberis. II announced that large
qusntes Of II existed in the interior, from which the
natives Manufactured spoos knives and other cutting
tools of very imperfect construction il s tue, but su
fcisntly perfect for their simple wants Samples Of
this iron brought to tois county and anslyzed at
Boston where il vas ascertained to be true native
iron, almost chemically pure aod fit for woIkrg on the
| anvil when taken Immediately from the mire. Since
that period further accounts have been received,
either in explanation copfrmatory. 1t is presumed
|
.1erd the settlements further into the Interior where
tn. &c deposits of rave iron said to be found. Bat
recent English papers srrounce process by which
iron ofuDprecedented purity msy be msde. Thenyentor
sr Howell Of Liverpool and the article thus produced
| he calls L" homogeneous metal" AZ usual with most
Lew tbrgs, the most s1trsvsgant accounts given
of its ets but the composition thus far not msds
public IL asserted that this iron possesses double
the strergtn of the best boiler on that owing 10 the
thiuness with which may be used with safety pound
Of coal will convert fifteen pounds Of water into steam
that plate of the homogeneous metal fitted on the
| fuInsce side Of steamboat boiler was perfectly
sound at the erd Of six months, while other plates Of
iron on the same boiler nearly destroyed; that
rod threeeignths Of al iLch thick vas tied into hsrd
inot while in a cold state that boiler Of this metal
would weigh only half as much as of the best
Lowmooruon-with otherequay striking peculiarites.
Mr. Howell proroutces it perfectly pure iron, made
directly from the bar, having the hardness of steel
without its bIittleress The British Government has
ordered several OF this metal for the boilers of
naval teamers and before long shall probably hear
more Of it, inertia But Ike many other things alleged
to be Of English origin which really the offspring
Of American genius, tht homogeneous metal believed
10 have been discovered and manufactured ten years
| ago by Mr.. Joeeph DiIon of Jersey City, NswJer-
sey, ole Of the nost ingenious men that any untry
has produced. Mr.. D1ons iron possessed ali the
merits which are sad to be possessed by Howsls. i:
proved to be Of double the strength of ordinary
boiler iron, and easIy converted into good steel
1t wac rot subject to destructive corosion a CON-
mon wrought iron, because Of its perfectly homoge-
reous texture and the absence OF all amns.
Yet this important discovery has been suffered sesp
il tbs county apparently unspprecs,ed by the great
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