River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-06-23
Opposition TO Great Inventions.

Tradition saws that John Faust. one
of the three inventors of printing, was
charged with multiplying books by the
aid of the devil, and was prosecuted
both by the priests and hepeople. The
strongest opposition TO the press has.
however, says Our Own Preside, been
presented in Turkey. The art of PRINT
ing had existed over 800 years before
printing-press was established in Con.
stantinople. From 1726 to TAO that
press issued only twenty-threev volumes.
1t was then stopped, and did not re-
sumo It's issues until after an interval
OF more than forty years. About 1850,
a press was established at Scutari, and
between 1850 and 1907 issued forty vol
umes, Again its operations were sus-
pended, and were not resumed until
1920, since which time it has worked
more industriously than heretofore, al
though fettered with the paternal over
sight OF the Turkish Government. The
ribbon-loom is an invention of the six
teenth century, and, ON the plea that il
deprived many workmen of bread, was
prohibited in Holland, in Germany, in
the dominions of the Church, and in
other countries of Europe. AT Ham
burg, the council ordered loom to be
publicly burned. The stocking-loom
shared the fate of theribbon-loom. In
England, the patronage of Queen Eliza
beth was requested for tho Invention,
and 1t is said that the inventor was
impeded rather than assisted in his un-
dertaking. In France, opposition to
the stocking-lcom was of the most base
and cruel kind. A Frenchman who
had adopted the invention, manufae-
tured Ivy the loom pair of silk stock
ings for Louis XIV. They were pre-
scented TO the French monarch. The
parties, however, who supplied hosiery
to the court, caused several of the loops
Of the stockings to be cut, and thus
brought the stocking-loom into disre-
pute at headquarters Table-forks APP
pear so necessary part of thefurniture
of the dinner-table, that one can scarce
" believe that the tables of the six
teenth century we're destitute of them.
They We're not, however, introduced
until the commencement of the seven
teenth century, and then were ridiculed
as superfluous and eileminate, while
the person who introduced them to
England was called Furcifer. They
were invented in Italy, and brought
thence to England ; napkins being used
in this country by thepolite, and fingers
by the multitude. The sawmill was
brought into England from Holland in
1868 bl' its introduction SO displeaeed
the English that the enterprise was
abandoned. A 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 bak-
ing. This mode of baking was intro
duced into England in 1890, by two
brothers, who came to Staffordshire
from Nuremburg Their success aud
their secrecy so enraged their neigh
bors that persecution arose against
them, and became so strong that they
were compelled to give up their works.
The pendulum was invented by Calico
but SO late as the end of the seven
teenth century, when Hooke brought il
forward as standard of measure, it
was ridiculed and passed by the name
of Swing -Swang.