The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-11-06
CHRONOLOGICAL.
The dates Of early great American in

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copper mines.
1772. Another similar engine, made
for a factory il Phiiadelphia.
17S5. Oliver Evans, OF Philadelphia,
introduced steam power to drive flour
mill and a brick yard.
1856. James Rumsey propelled yes
sci on the Potomac River by the reaction
of the water.
1877. Perkins invented nail cutting
machine, which could make 200, 900 nails
per day.
178S. John Fitch navigated the Della
ware river with the first steamboat.
1874. Whitney's cotton gin invented.
1895. Benjamin Thompson, otherwisa
Count Rumford, discovered that there is
no such thing as caloric fluid, but that
heat is a peculiar mode of motion of the
material particles of bodies, and thus laid
the foundation of the modern theory of
the conservation Of forces.
1857. Benjamin Thompson invented
a brush making machine.
1897. Amos Whittemore introduced a
machine for making tie cards used in
cotton and woolen manufacture.
179S. Robert Mexican patented the
first steam saw mill.
1893. Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia,
made the first high pressure steam ell
gine, and built a steam carriage, which,
however, was not n success.
1904. Colonel John Cox Stevens in-
vented the screw propeller, the model of
which is still at the Hoboken, (N. j. in
stitute for engineers.
1904. Oliver Evans built a paddle
wheel steamer, to ply on the Delaware
and S5chuylkill rivers, driven by double
acting high pressure engine; also adapt
ed for land conveyance.
1906. Thomas Blanchard, made an
apparatus adapted for rifing gun barrels.
1907. Robert Fulton travelled with his
first steamboat from New York to Al
bany.
1907. Oilcloth for hoor-carpeting first
made III Philadelphia
1907. John Bedford invented and
manufactured metal-bound boots and
shoes.
1911. John II. Hall, of Massachusetts
invented breach-loading muskets.
1872. George Shoemaker sold in Phil
adolphia several truekleods of csutirraUitc
coal for fuel, and was imprisoned as an
impostor for selling stones for coal.
1913. Francis @. Lowell made import
ant improvements in the power loom.
1917. Geo. Clymer produced the first
American made printing press.
1878. Jacob Perkins introduced steel
engrayings as q substitute for COPPER.
1919. The Savannah made tie first
passage across the Atlantic ocean by
steam-power-driving paddle wheels.
1920. Henry Burden, of Troy, n. Y.
invented the cultiyator.
1921. The same inventor improved
rolling mills.
1921. Jordan L. Mott invented utili-
zation of small coal for furnaces.
1922. James Mcdonald, of New York,
invented machinery for cleaning fax and
hemp.
1853. Joseph Saxton invented a wheel
cutting engine producing epycicloidal
teeth.
1921. Ladoc Pratt established his
celebrated tanneries in the CatskilIs, \.
Y. state.
1924. Completion of the Erie canal
connecting tho large lakes with the Hud-
son river.
1927. Harrison A. Dyar established
the first telegraph line on Long Island,
making signals with frictional electri-
city.
1927. John McClinter, of Pennsyl-
vania, invented the slotting and shaping
machine.
1923. First American patent for i'm
proyement in locomotives granted.
1923. First locomotive journey made
on the Honesdale and Carbondale rail
way, Pennsylvania.
1928. Hay and straw used for the first
time to make paper.
1923. James Bogardus invented the
ring flyer for spinning cotton.
1923. The same Invented mills with
eccentric grinding surfaces.
1881. Redfeld published his book on
the theories of storms.
1857. James Bogardu5 invented dry
gas meter.
1884. Henry Burden, invented Lis
nail making machines.
1886. James Bogardus invented
pantograph.
1910. The same invented the molds
to press glass in while blowing.
1911. The same made improvements
in drilling machinery.
Since then inventions and patents have
succeeded one another at most aston
ishing rate.
THE fellow who was told that another |
drink would kill him, said: eff haf to
die, lem me, but / viii take two horns
first" This is the correct origin of the /.
expression. ''two horns to dilemma"
a YOUNG man who has tried everything
else and failed, writes to the Vicksburg /
Herald to inquire the requisites for a 1