The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-09-26
THE WONDERFUL YANKEE.
An English Estimate OF American Inyol
sions Shown In Paris.
From the London Times.

from The London Times.
Though the American collection a,
Paris is not large compared with those o.
other manufacturing nations there are
present so many of the continuance:
which illustrate the subtle mechanical
genius so we'll recognized already that
Yankee" is almost synonym of inven.
tor, that it becomes TO amateurs in me.
chanism most fascinating stroll. that
among the little railed-off spaces of the
American section-for few Of these con.
tributions occupy more than few square
feet. Many Of them are already widely
known-the writing machine, by which
the operator, touching series of keys
like those Of an accordion, prints his
thoughts or text more rapidly than thew
can be written legibly with pen; the
sewing machine, whose name is legion,
and which here are illustrated by new
variations for special work, little at
tachment to one making it an embroider-
ing machine of curious efficiency, and
another a plating machine. The tele-
phone and phonograph are there, and
besides them an electric pen by the in
yentor of the phonograph-a pen, which
carrying tiny electro moter ut tho top,
drives needle through the paper 10, 800
times minute, forming stencil sheet
through, which, with al ink roller, copies
may be produced mere rapidly than with
photographic press, and Of an excellence
which must be seen to be appreciated.
A FLEXIBLE AUGUR.
/ Finest type of the "Yahkee" contriy.
ance is the Stow "fexible" shaft for
transferring power round corners and out
of the way places. One sees the opera
tor holding what seems at first sight to
be small garden hose, but furnished
with an augur at its extremity, with
which he thrusts and bores in every di-
rectlon-over his head, under his feet,
to the right, to the left-it upsets all ones
ideas Of rigidity, Pharaoh could moi
have been moro surprised at seeing
Moses rod turn to serpent than we
were to Gee this rope-like affair eating
into the planks set on all sides for it to
work on. It is as good as piece of leg
erdemain. It is really flexible shaft
"a cable of steele wires wound coat over
coat, each successive coating in the re.
verse direction from the preceding, until
the required strength is attained, and in
which longitudinal foxibility is combined
with circumferential rigidity.
FOR DRAWING CoRKs.
Close by it stands Clough & William.
sons wire corkscrew machine" which
catches straight piece of steele wire and
throws it out cork-screw of such tenn.
per that it may be driven through al
inch deal plank and not yield a hairs
breadth. The dcftest waiter will take a.
long to pull q cork as This machine tc
make half dozen corkscrews of an ex.
ceptionally good quality. Here is g
screw.cutting machine, which takes q
rod of iron, steel or brass, and by an au
tomato series of operations drops screws
ut the other end of the machine. One
tool cuts the point of the rod down tc The
dimensions OF the screw, another c,'g il
OF, leaving the head the full size o. the
rod, another takes it from the last anc
passes it on to have. the thread cut. &
cutter passes by and leaves it slotted
another with four iron fingers takes il
and transfers it TO nftn cutter, where
the h5Ed is finished. whea still sncths,
tool comes to push it into the pan placed
to receive it. No Intervention ;s needed
nnti another rod is wanted
A set of shoemaking apparatus in en-
other enclosure takes the leather in the
hide and turns out, with slight manual
application, pair of shoes sewed, pegged
or screwed in about fifteen nutes.-
These machines, with the exception OF
one for sewing on the welt, were at the
Vienna Exhibition. and were better ar
ranged and displayed than here.
| A novel planning machine shows q re-
volving cutter fixed in disk, which is,
by means of an elbow arrangement oi
bands and pulleys, moved in any direc-
ton over the board to be planed, giving
Q very remarkable finish to the surface.
In general, however, the wood working
apparatus is not so interesting az at vi
emma.
AMERICAN GOLD PENS.
| They who have learned to use the
American gold pens will appreciate the
excellence of the only better substitute
for the gray goose quill, but the nice
processes by which its perfection is at
tanned will be less easily understood.
The process by which it is produced is
not one of scientific elaboration or bril-
liant invention, but OF laborions expert
ment and thoroughness and conscien-
tiousness of manufacture which we are
not generally disposed to credit Ameri-
can manufacturers with. First, an alloy
is formed which can be hammered to q
degree of hardness which makes It al
most incapable of further impression
from the hammer. The pen reduced to
its general form by the die then receives
C point by alloying with iridium of ada
mantine hardness, which is then cut into
two and the slit produced, when the pen
is hammered to the highest point oi
elasticity, the peculiar alloy used being,
it is said, one which will condense under
the hammer without spreading, until it
has received the maximum of density
alluded to, and the pen is then FURNISHED
into shape under burnisher giving q
pressure of about q hundred pounds
weight, the effect OF which is to secure
! the shape finally given against any usage
by equalizing the density OF the metal
throughout. After q use of these pens
of various manufacturers running over 9
/ period OF more than twenty years ol
literary occupation, am able to say
that not one has ever failed except from
gross i'll treatment. The exhibits of gold
pens are an indispensable and character
istic part of any collection of the impor
tant American industries.
| TIME KEEPERS.
Perhaps, however, the most importan
displays in this department, all thing.
considered, ;s that cf :hS Wais.hlsaiI
Watch Company, their first in the Euro
pean exhibitions. The readers of tn,
Times reports of the Philadelphia exhi
biaion3 will not need to be informed O
the admirable machinery by which th,
works of the Waltham watches are pro
duced or their singular exactitudc, which
enables any part of watch to be re
placed by the corresponding pieces o
J any other watch of the same grade. Il.
4 illustrate hoy involved are the variou