The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-07-07

In lN5i. Hobbs the American, crossed the
ocean and succeeded IN picking t. But It took
oven Hobbs no lees than sixteen days Of mani
Uvlstion, during which he used variety Of
elaborate Instruments, which no burglar Gov ID
Bramab, after the success e his lock, occ. ,ned
himself with making ny drauliC pumps, making
pens, and making macntucs for quilting nm trees
and for hoisiing goods into warehouS Is , but his
meme 10 now principally assOciat I'd with tho
Bromah lock, lie was so high Sn authority in
mechanical affairs, that wbed any difficulty
occurred which mechanical ingenuity was likely
to remove, recourse was usually had 30 Bramah
and he was rarely found at a loss for q cOntri-
vance 20 overcome Il. THUS, when applied 10
by the Bank Of England In 1906, to construct
machine for more accurately and eXpeditously
printing the numbers and date lines on bank
not, s, he At once prCce ded 10 invent the neces-
sary model, which be completed In the course ofa
month And ihe same instrument, with his own
subsequent Improvements, is still in constant
use, saving much clerical labor, and nsurng tho
greatest accuracy and legblliy.
HENRY pAuDsLEY.
The mechanical tastes of n boy are usually as
strongly marked in an inbun mechanic as the
| musical taste is early developed In a musician.
| Nacitpy non It, But generally the former tastes
/ useful, 90 lot attract az much attention as the
| latter. There are boys TO HON the blacksmith 8
| forge and the machine shop are irresistible at
! fractions. Often such tastes are stitled nt once
| entity "a cieIk"-a young man who, without
| 81, cial tommucal inbtinCts, Is grated In the
tree Of commerce, mover takes 20 IL kindly, and
| is ever after a Faplcss sort Of twg. Sometimes
! the would.le mechanic is put "in q law. Office, "
| and once in while is sent 10 study for the
Church." The result is at the best dcplJrable me
I diCcTiiy.
Henry Maudslcy, one Of the most eminent OF
English mechanics (whuso death is reported Ia
US among the news brought by the last foreign
steamer, had this mechanical instrct strikt gy
developed. His father was carpenter, but
young Maudsey himself We much fonder OF
| working in iron, and would often excite the
anger Of the fOrcngE oy stealing on to an ad
Joining smitby. lie urged so hard for the
change that wen fifteen years old he was trans
fened from the carpenters to the blacksmith Z
| shop. taaysE
Here he became an expert worker in metal
and wes soon quite noted for forging "uivets'
with great speed and skill, the old experienced
| bends gathering round TO admire him when
] this work. They had in this shop-which be
| lODgCd to the naval works Of WoOlwich-a verl
acCCmmOdatng experimenting officer, witt
| would blow his nose in peculiar manner whei
approaching, so that all forbidden jobs--ant
| making "trivcts" was one of thcm-might be pu
ont Of the way by the time he entered the shop
When a boy has the innate love for his trad
| that Maudsley had-aud thousands of American
| youths all over the country have to-Oay-he doc
not Il main at the foot of the ladder. Take n bO
there are plenty suCh-who has no partcula
prediction for anything, and put him at trade
|
But boys like MBUdsley, almost without know
ing IL, are urged on 10 something better.
At this time Bramah, the lockmakeT, had grea
difficulty to find mechanics shiliul enough I
make his locks with the neat precision he wanted
Young Mauds'ey was suggested TO him, and o
being sent for, The young Woolwich blacksmt
came 20 London. lie was then hut eighteen ear
old strong muscular, tall, and remarkably hand
, some. But both Bramah and his foreman though
he was too young 70 be put in the shdp with Oh
woIkmen. A woTn-Out YiCe-benCh was lying nea
| by, and MaudslCy, seeing his chances were Il
danger, asked permission to 60 right to work an
fix II up.
lie did so, and the Job was so splendidly eX,
| cuted that he was at once engaged and he b.
| came as much a favorie in this as in his furm'
shop. As before said, he WIS extremely hanC
| sCme-an Apollo among NultaIs; and his pc
sonal advantages, with his mental activity, ha
their effect on his fellow wOTkmeD, who tacitl
Acknowledged him as their leader and superio
= He rose in position and became foreman. !
Q | 1897 he opened n shop of bis own, he and h
S wiie-for pretty girl bad little time befo
1 | accepted the hands ONE misunderstanding Il
a hired shop of the dirt and rubbish left in it by
G former tenant His first customer was an arts
: who gave an order for the iron frame OF lars
= easel; snd thCnceforIh Maudsley's shop hS
n plenty OF work.
n His next success was the invention of Il
r sde-Test with which his name is usually ide
}, tifed-an invention, TOO, which all familiar wi
the use of the turIing-lathe now consider indi
r, ptDsable Maudsley subsequently became
r. famous manufacturer of machinery; but ev'
% when he employed numbers Of men, and four
IS il necessary TO labor more with the head than d
1, hands he used to go often TO the FORGE and wO
enthusiastically with the slCdgcbammer, ju
d from sheer love of his art In time his shop b
d | came, as it were, a college OF mechanical al
IS frC m which the best mechanics were proud
10 have graGuated.-Net0 York Post.