Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-03-01
EaYPT's MEcnANicAL MAnvrI,s

EGYPrs MECHANICAL MARvExa.
Taking their employment of the me-
chancal forces, and their movement az
large masses from the earth. we know
that they had the five, seven, or three
mechanical powers but we cannot 40
count for the multiplication and increase
necessary I" perform the wonders they
accomplished. fa.ru -
In Boston, lately, we have moved the
Pelham Hotel, weighing Sc, 900 tons. IA
feet, and are very proud of il. and since
then we moved a whole block OF houses
% feet, and | have no doubt we win
write book about it; but there is 4
book telling bow Dominica Fontana of
the sixteenth century set up the Egyp-
tan obelisk at Rome on end in the Papa
cy OF Sixtus ". Wonderful Yet the
Egyptians quarried that stone and car.
ried it $50 miles, and the Romans
brought it $50 miles, and never said !
word about it. ~. --'...1
Mr.. Batterson of Hartford, walking
with Brunei, the architect of the Thames
tunnel, in Egypt, asked him what he
thought of the mechanical power of the
Egyptians, and he said, "There is Pom
pey's Pillar; it is 100 feet high, and the
capital weighs 1000 pounds. tits some
thing of feat to hang 1000 pounds at
that hight in the air, and the few men
hat can do it would better discuss
Egyptian mechanics" ha'-i'
Take canals, for instance The Sne3
Canal absOrbs half it's receipts in clean
ing out the sand which fills il continual
iy, and IT is not yet known whether IL 10
pecuniary success. The ancients built
a canal at right angles 10 ours, because
they knew it would not fill up il built in
that direction, and they knew such An
one as onrs would. There were maenif.
cent canals iii the land of the Jews, with
perfectly arranged gates and sluices.
We have only just begun to understand
ventilation properly for our houses; vet
late experiments at the Pyramids in
Egypt show that those Egyptian tombs
were ventilated in the most perfect and
scientific manner.
Again, cement is modern, for the au-
clients dressed and jointed their stones
so closely that in buildings thousands of
years old the thin blade of a pen knife
cannot be forced between them. The
railroad dates back to Egypt. Arago
has claimed that they had knowledge
OF steam. A painting has been discov-
cred of ship full of machinery, and, .
French engineer said that the arrange.
ment of this machinery could only be
accounted for by supposiDg the motive
power TO have been steam. Brahma ac-
knowledges that he took the idea of .his
celebrated lock from an ancient Egyptian
pattern. De Tocqueville says there was
no social question that was not discussed
TO rags in Egypt.
OLD HINTS OF NEW THINGS ~
We'll" say you, franklin invented the
lightning rod. l have no doubt he did; bat
years before his invention, and before muskess
were invented, the old soldiers on guard ON
the tower, used Franklin's invention to keep
guard with and if spark passed betweer,
the warning OF the state and condition Of
affairs
After that you will admit that BENJAMIN
franklin was not the only one that knew Of
the presence of electricity, and the advantages
derived from its use. Solomon's temple, YOU,
will find, was situated ON an exposed point Of
tie hill the temple was so lofty that it was
often in peril, and WAS guarded by q system
exactly like that of Benjamin Franklin's.
Well, may tell you a little of ancient man
ufactures. The Duchess of Burgundy took q
| necklace from the neck of mummy and wore
| il to ball given at the Tuileries, and every
| body said they thought it was the newest
thing there You have heard of what is call
ed the Estruscare, and the Italians spent their
| lives in trying to find out the secret; AMI it
has come down to US and our day, and we do
not know either.
The old no yels of Walter Scott were three
thousand years before the popular tales OF
EaStprn eli -
was town in Vermont SO corrupt that the
| inhabitants had tc sleep in the walls at night"
! Well, he had this opinion. A HindoO princess
came into court, and her father seeing her
said go home, you are not decently covered
go hOme;" and she said: Father, I have
seven suits :" but The suits were of muslin
so thin that the king could see through them.
4 Roman poet says: THE girl was IN the
poetic dress OF the country" l fancy the
| French would he rather astonished at this
Four hundred and fifty years ago the first
spinning machine was introduced into Europe;
| | have evidence to show that il made its ap-
pearance 1000 years before -.
Well l tell you this fact to show that per-
haps we don't invent just everything. Why
| did | think to grOpe in the ashes for this
Bee ,use all Egypt knew the secret, which was
not the knowledge of the professor the king
and the priest. Their knowledge won an
historic privilege which separated them from
Cambyses came down from Persia, and by his
genius and intellect opened the gates of knOwi.
edge, laundering across Egypt, drawing civil
izaIion from royalty and priesthood.
MODERN KNOWLEDGE UTILIZED. .
Such WAS the system which was established
in Egypt of old. 1t had been 1000 years be-
fore humanity took this inject to proper
consideration, and when this consideration
was made, civilization changed her chs "a ster.
Learning no longer hid in a convent ST slum-
hered in the Palace. Mol she came Oul join
ing hands with the people, minisieripg aud
with them. u" .4i}
We have not astrology in the stars, serving
only kings and priests; we have an astr6I0gy
serving all those around US. We have moi "A
chemistry hidden in under ground cells, slriy-
ing for wealth, striving to turn everything in
10 gold No, we have n chemistry lah0ring
with the farmer, and digging gold out Of Tie
rarih with the miner. All this is the nine
teenth century, and Of the hundreds Of things
we know | can show you ninety mine of them
which have been anticipated. II the l.ber.
ty OF intellect and diffusion of knowledge
that has caused this anticipation. <s8i.io o..
When Gihbon finished his History of Roma
he said The hand will never go back ON the
dial OF Time. when everything was hidden in
fear ia the dark ages" He made that boast ss
he oOd at night in the ruins Of the Oonini
palace looking out upon the places where the
monks were chanting that vision disappear
ed, and there arose in its stead the Temple
OF Jupiter. Could he look back upon the
past he would see nations that went up In
| their stranafh and down graves with 6re In