The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-11-21


| pie applied was Mr-John Penn. Jr,, of
thewell known works at Greenwich, and
she had letter from him saying thet
the discovery actually frightened him,
50 great would bethe revolution in ma
chinery. Prof. Tyndall was away in
Swiizerland, but he had hahthe sprinci-
4 pie described 10 hir1, and in a letter
from Mrs. Tyndall b Missa Hosmer he
enclosed q message testify ing to the i'm
/ portance and absolute novelty of her
discovery, and saying that he should
give it careful attention on his return to
England. f" ,..,., i"i--.a o.
Mr.. Browning is now engaged on a
4-horse power machine for Miss Hos
mer, and his to be completed this win
ter, when Miss Hosmer will return here
from Rome and have It publicly exhib-
ited 7IaOq y
"But now | viii show you another
Of my inyentions,, Miss Hosmer said,
taking q polished slabfrom the center
! table. What do you think of that for
q piece of marble? Well, that's my sec
ond invention, an imitation of marble.
1t is made from soft limestone. You
know that n Italy and ekewherethere
Baye been, many attempts made to turn
! limestone into marble, but heretofore
they have succeeded only in making
seagliola. / knew all about these ex-
periments, and il occurred TO me that
! although dry heat had failed, possibly
moist heat might succeed. SO made
number of experiments, and finally
i1it-upofi the idea OF compression and
moist heat together At the end of
.tbree hours my reteFt contained marble
.hstead d Hmestone. and YOU see some
Of the results before you"
Miss Hosmer's specimens were GER
tainiy beautiful. They-were as perfect
marble to sll- appearances as ever was
quarried. Every variety of color and
shade had been used. Some slabs were
of pure white, others deep blaek; the
delicate cream of the antique apd the
rarest green and warmest rose -colored1
marbles were initiated TO great perfec-
ton. These are not ordinary limitations,
which fan into dispepute3 by their COM
monness. Placing a column of genu-
inc green or, cobalt marble along side of
these limitations, no eye could tell which
WIS the imitation aTs...-s --.aas.zsaa-s
81 presume the stone thus made will
be aYailable only under coyer?" was
asked, "or will it stand the wear and.
tear of outdoor exposureP" Ia
, =. Wherever marble can be used this
can be used, for. it is marble. OF course
it is not suited for statuary- the grain is
not close enough; but for all building
purposes it is just as good as marble,
and far cheaper"
"What have you done about this in
vention, Miss Hosmer?T = r1TI
al shall do nothing with it until nav
other invention IS Of my hands, | re-
gard that as of the first Importance, and
this is only an accidental piece of good
fortune. The discovery with regard to
the magnet was the result of long
search, and, though | finally succeeded,
as much by bit as by w.t. still it was
only fair that ] should. At the end of
Is years experiments, suddenly hit
upon something greater than, L had
hot ed for; feel that it is far more inn
portant than the. marble, and so L de-
vote myself to it. have patented the
narble-makiug process in the United
States, and have had an offer to buy
the right of Manufacture there from
very large manufacturing establishment
in Central New York. - 71-'-7--