The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-09-17
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Genius and it's Applica tion--How the
World U1ilizas and Perfac5s What is
Discovered in tho United States.


World UCilizes and Perfec5s What is
Discovered in tho United States.
From the London Times.
Though tho American collection at
Paris is not large compared with
those Of other manufacturing na-
tons there arc present SO many of
the con trivances which illustrate the
subtle mechanical genius SO well
recognized already that ''Yankco' is
almost synonym Of inventor, that
it becomes to. amateurs in mechan-
ism most fascinating stroll, that
among the little railed~off spaces of
the American section--for few of
these contributions occupy moro
than II fow square feet. Many of
them are already widely known-the
writing mtcaine, by which the opcr.
ator, touching series Of keys like
those OF All accordion, prints his
thoughts or text moro rapidly
than they CAN be written legibIv
with pom the sewing machine,
whose Name is legion, and which
here are illustrated by new varia-
tlons Tor special work, little at
tachmant to one making it an en-
broldcrln3 machine Of curious eff
cheney, and another II plating ma
chine. The telephone and phono-
graph arc there, and beside them an
electric pen by the inventor Of the
phonoSraph-a pen, which carrying
tiny electro motor at the top,
drives a needle through the papor
l0,SO0 times " minute, forming q
stencil sheet through which, with
an ink roller, copies may be pro-
duced more rapidly than with Il
photographic press, ana of an excel
lence which must be seen to be ap-
preciAted
FLEXIBLE AUGUR.
Finest typo of the "Yankee"
contrivance is the Stow "hexiblc'
Shaft for transferring power round
corners anal ont Of the WY places
One secs the operator holding what
seems ut first sight to be a small
garden hose, but furnished with an
augur at it's extremity, with which
ne thrusts and bores in every dircc.
tion-over his head, under his feet,
to the right, to the lcft-it upsets
all ones ideas of rigidity. Pharaoh
could not have been more surprised at
seeing Moses rod turn to a serpent
than we were to see this rope-like
affair eating into the planks set on
all sides for it to work on. It is as
good as a piece of lcgerdemain. 1t
is really ''hexible shaft "a cable
OF steel wires wound coat over coat,
each successive coating in the re-
verse direction from the preceding,
until the required strength is at
tanned, and in which longitudinal
heXlbllity is combined with circum-
ferential rigidity.
FOR DRAWING coRKs
Close by it stands Clough & Will
Hamsons 'wire corkscrew machine
which catches Il straight piece Of
steel wire and throws it out q cork-
screw OF sucn temper that it may DO
driven through an inch deal plank
and not yield a hairs breadth. The
deftest waiter will take as long to
pull a cork as this machine to make
half dozen corkscrews of an excep :
tlonally good quality. Here is n
screw-cutting machine, which takes
rod OF iron, steel or brass, and by
an automatic series of operations
drops screws at tho other end Of the
machine. One tool cuts the point
of the rod down to tho dimensions
Of the screw, another cuts it off,
leaving tho head the full size of the
rod, another takes it from the last
and passes it on to have the thread
cut, cutter passes by and leaves it
slotted, another with four iron
fingers takes it and transfers it to q
fifth cutter, where tho head is fin
ished, when still another tool comes
to push it into the pan placed to
receive it. No intervention is need
ed until another rod is wanted
A set of shoemaking apparatus in
another enclosure takes the leather
in the hide and turns out, with
slight manual application, q pair of
shoes sewed, peggod or screwed in
about fifteen minutes. These ma
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