Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-14
Opposition TO asrea. Invemtions.

Tradition says John Faust, one of the three
inventors of printing, was charged with multi
plying books by the aid of the devil, and was
prosecuted both by the priests and the people.
The strongest opposition to the press has, how
ever, been presented in Turkey. The art of
printing had existed three hundred years before
a printing press was established in Constantine
Pile. From 1926 to 1740, that press issued only
twenty-three Aolumes. 1t was then stopped,
and did not resume its issues until after an in
teryal of more than forty years. About 1880
press was established at Scutari, and between
1880 and 1908 issued forty volumes Again its
operations were suspended, and were not re-
sumed until the year 1920 since which time it
has worked more industriously than heretofore,
although tettered with the paternal oversight of
the Turkish government.
The ribbon-oom is an iRvendon of the six
teenth century; and on the plea that it deprived
many workmen of their bread was prohibited in
Holland in Germany, in the dominions of the
church, and in other countries of Europe. At
Hamburg, the council ordered loom to be
publicly burned. The stocking-loom shared the
fate of the ribbon loom. In England, the pat
ronage of Queen Elizabeth was requested for
| the invention, but it is said that the inventor
was rather impeded than assisted in his under
| taking. In France, opposition to the stocking
| loom was OF the most base and cruel kind, A
| Frenchman who had adopted the invention,
manufactured by the loom pair of silk stock
| ings for Louis XVI. They were presented TO the
| monarch. The parties, however, who supplied
| hosiery to the court, caused several loops of the
| stockings to be cut, and thus brought the
stocking-loom into disrepute at headquarters.
| Table-forks appear so necessary part of the
| furniture of the dinner table, that one can
scarcely believe that the tables of the sixteenth
| century were destitute Of them. They were not,
\ however introduced until the seventeenth cen
| fury, and then were ridiculed as superauous and
effeminate, while the persons who introduced
them into England, was called Lucfer. They
were invented in Italy, and brought thence to
| England, napkins being used in this country by
the polite, and fingers by the multitude
The saw mill was brought into England from
Holland in 1868. But its introduction so dis
pleased the English that the enterprise was
abandoned. second attempt was then made
at Limehouse and the mill was erected, but soon
after its erection it was pulled down by mob
Pottery is glazed by throwing common salt into
| the oven at a certain stage of the baking. This
mode of glazing was introduced into this coun.
| try in 1890, and came to Statfordshire from NJ.
| rcmburg. The success and secrecy of its in.
yentors so enraged their neighbors that persecu-
| ton against them became so strong that they
were complied to give up their works. The
| pendulum was invented by Calico; but SO late
as the SEVENTEEN century, when Hook brought
it forward as the standard of measure, it was
| ridiculed, and passed by the name of swing
| swang.-Our Olon Freside.