The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1876-09-18

how 70 knit. That was abog; the rear
1854. Years passed or. and Mr.. Lee
coasi not diyess himself Of :he idea .ha,
some simple mechanisgn nigh, DO the
work.
20 he made various exper. II ents, and
- iast. in 1889. invented the a.t of
weaving Stockings in franz
Considering that good Queen Bes."
hal obtained her first pair of knit silk
stockings only twenty years previously
whereby she was enabled TO lay aside
her heavy cloth hose, or gaiters). i, may
readily be imagined that she warmly
patronized M. Lees ingenious inven-
tion.
Blythe. way. cotton stockings were
first made. by hand. in 1880. J-iediAh
strut took out patent for Derby rib
bed stockings in 1859 Horton patent
81 his knstteF frame in i116. and Sam
uel Champions mule" was first en-
ploeyd IN making cotton thread FIR
stocking Manufacture abou, the year
1870.
In our own days. one of the most em-
inent OF English artists made . most
bea u,ifnl paintingof Mr. Lee. hanging
bis wife's chair as she was plying her
knitting needles-her face having the
troubled expires sion of person who is
puzzled over an apparently simple
thing.
An incident in the life Of James
Watt, who is credited with having pro-
duced the first steam engine (only one
hundred and ten years ago). has been
frequently illustrated by the pictorial
art. Whist Wordsworth said. about the
child being father Of the man, was re-
markably shown in Watts case.
At the age of fourteen he made an
electrical machine About the same
time, his aunt scolded him, a. the tea
table, for what she condemned as list
less idleness.
The lad would employ himself in
taking the lid off the tea kittle, and
putting it on again holding sometimes
cup. and sometimes silver spoon
over the steam watching the exit of
the steam from the spout, and counting
the drops of water into which il became
condensed. In this was the germ of
the steam engine. which he patented
nearly twenty years later.
Artists have repeatedly drawn the
boy. not at the tea ta BILE, but sitting be
fore the fire. making experiments with
steam generated IN . kettle Of boiling
water
1t will be remembered that most of
our modern manufacturers, including q
vast number of the Injuries as we'll as
the necessities Of life, could not have
existed in their present perfection with
out the assistance of such = handmaid
as steam; and railways, which are now
TO be found in every civilized country,
could not have been successful without
the same motive power.
The lives Of the great scientists are
usually not strongly marked with strik.
ing incidents. There is nothing very
striking in the biography (as man OF
science) of Franklin. who initiated the
idea of the electric telegraph, or of Pro-
| fessor Morse who reduced that idea into
| practice.
Except that they involved struggle,
more or less. with poverty and affection.
the same may be said of the lives
of Elias Howe, who invented
that wonderous piece Of mechanism.
! the sewing machine or poor Charles
Goodyear. who first vulcanized india
rubber; or Jacob Perkins. another
/ American inventor. to whom we owe
the hardened steel plates, which for the
/ engrsvers' use, have almost entirely su
| perseded the old copper plates