New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-05-21
The invention Of the sewng-mschinc enables to order

The invention Of the sevingmachne enables us 70 order
suit Of clothes nthe morning to be finished at night and
the Introduction Of anlnc coors made from the refuse tar
Of the cl house. affords an admirable variety Of dyes for
Lc cloths we are 10 use.
hundred year, ago when Franklin went TO Hy kite
10 bring down The lightning Of heaven to prove its identity
with the electricity Of earth the st link was forged in the
chain which terminated in the telegraph.
The first years -four paper the first years of the
telegraph Il was only afer much persuasion that Con-
ress lent helping land 10 establish The line between
Washington and Baltimore.
We have seen tho world covered With the meshea Of
these wires since vo first sat down TO write for THF
TRIBUNE; and the old pony express and the slow STACY
coach 10 longer furnish for latest edition. Tie
lightning flashes intelligence across the country and u-
terry annihiiates time and space.
The same battery that drives the Telegraph can regu
la, clock and make eecroype Of the type we SET
Il can give us the electric light and thus enable US TO de-
psnso with gas or petroleum. or parlthne, or the ne"
magnesium light which Is offered 10 US so eheaply
The farmer who reads paper has been Informed Of
the growth OF agricultural knowledge Lebg work had
Just appeared and agriculture cannot be said to have as
sumcd scientific form before that great book invited at
tntion to The wascgul manner in which the earth was
robbed Of it, power noursh the plant without resu-
ton being made to supply the loss
Guano and composts have been introduced and reyou-
ton effected among intelligent farmers within the lapse
Of fow years
We have not space 70 speak of all Of the implements Of
agriculturethe movers capers, threshers and sewers
nor Of the new kinds of seeds grains and sugarpoducng
crops which have into during the present gen
Grafton.
Ozone, which is destined to play an important part in
the art of bleaching and is a dsinfecant, was made
known in our early numbers. We recorded the opening
Of Brunels great work the Thames Tunnel in 1873 and
can now speak of many similar undertakings.
Wcdescbed the perturbations of the planet Uranus in
1876 and the subsequent discovery of Neptune by Lever
rer. The same year Schoenbein told Of gun cotton,
and shortly afterward American Maynard showed the
souby of the cotton in ether and alcohol and they pre-
pared coodon for the use Of the surgeon and pho
togaphcr.
We recorded the observations of Jackson upon ether,
and Of Simpson upon choroform aneshetic agents
the one in 1916. the other in ls47.
We told OF Stephensons great iron bridge in lSiS Of
Wheastones stereoscopc in 1885, of the submarine tel
egaph from Dover to Calais, in 1850; Of Foucauts ex-
poments with the pendulum, in 1851 Encssons caorc
engine in 1882 Peenkofrs gas from wood in 1852; and
from time to time, they have occurred, We have no.
tced the discovery Of the new metals Ruihonum Nobi-
um, Ca,sium, Rubdium, Thaum and Iridium, whose
practical uses are still probematical.
In 1883 the condenser and induction coil Of fizeau was
made known. Through its instrumentiliy may some
DAY be able to apply electricity as motive power
Bessemcrs process hrst published in 1886, and now
il is The crownng glory in the working of ron and must
advance civilization more than almost any invention Of
modern times.
We have given account OF all Improvements in en-
gnes Of the abor-saying machines of the new
applications OF chemistry and physics; Of the pro-
gress Of mining and metallurgyi Of the doctrine OF
dalysis; OF the mechanical theory OF heat; OF new
methods for preserving food Of the eventual syn
thesis Of organic BODIES Of the analysis Of substances by
the color Of their flames and the composition Of the suns
light by the spccrocope and Of the attempts at ~re
navigation and now dawns upon US the doctrine Of the
correlation Of tho forces the dynamics life that no force
j. lost any more than matter. We cannot lift hand or
breathe sigh without contributing to the general welfare
mankind the force o1erted produces heat and th heat
may start bud tender plant and thus the round OF
life be kept up.
The mighty torrent Of Niagara helps to warm aud WHY
the universe the little drops of water do the same, and
thus stand a.he half open door OF nature and catch
such gmp-cs Of the gores within that what We have
done appears nothing and what remains to be done
ries US with awe up to the throne Of the Eternal.