The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-01-24
American Ingenuity.

1736-The first steam engine built,
after the Newcomer type, for the Schuy-
Ter copper mines.
1772-Another similar engine, made
for factory in Philadelphia.
1785-Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia,
introduced steam power to drive flour
mill and brickyard.
| 17S5-James Rumsey propelled YES
sci on the Potomac River by the reac-
ton of the water.
1787-Perkins invented nail cutting
machine which could make 100000
nails per day.
178S-John Fitch navigated the Della
ware River with the first steamboat.
1794-Whitney's cotton gin invented.
l796-Benjamin Thompson, other
wise Count Rumford, discovered that
there is no such thing as a caloric fluid,
but that heat is peculiar mode of mo-
ton of the material particles of bodies,
and thus laid the foundation of the
modern theory of the conservation OF
forces
1797-Benjamin Thompson invented
brush-making machine.
1797-Amos Whittemore introduced
a machine for making the cards used in
cotton and wooden manufacture.
1798-Robert Mexican patented the
first steam saw mill.
1799-Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia,
made the first high-pressure steam en-
CINE, and builta steam carriage, which,
however, was not a success.
1804-Col. John Cox Stevens in
vented the screw propeller, the model
of which is still at the Hoboken On. j. J
Institute for Engineers.
1S04-Oliver Evans built paddle
wheel steamer, to ply on the Delaware
and Schuylkill rivers, driven by a
double-acting high-pressure engine;
also adapted for land conveyance.
1806-Thomas Blanchard, of Massa
chusetts, invented a Matchmaking ma
chine, which made $4,000 tacks per
hour.
1807-Thomas Blanchard made an
apparatus adapted for rifing gun bar
rels.
1807-Robert Fulton travelled with
his first steamboat from New York to
Albany.
1807-Oil cloth for floor carpeting
first made in Philadelphia.
1807-John Redford invented and
manufactured metal-bound boots and
shoes.
1S11-John H. Hall, of Massachu-
sets. invented breech-loading muskets
1812-George Shoemaker sold in
Philadelphia several truck-loads of an
thracite coal for fuel, and was impris-
oned as an imposter for selling stones
for coal.
1S13-Francis G.. Lowell made i'm
portant improvements in the power
loom.
1S17-George Clymer produced the
first American made printing press.
1818-Jacob Perkins introduced steel
engravings as a substitute for copper
1919 The Savannah made the first
passage across the Atlantic Ocean by
steam power driving paddlewheels.
1S20-Henry Burden, of Troy, N. r.,
invented the cultivator.
1S21-The same inventor improved
rolling mills.
1S21-Jordan L. Mott invented utili-
cation of small coal for furnaces.
1822-James Mcdonald, of New York,
invented machinery for cleaning fax
and hemp.
1823-Jos. Saxon invented a wheel
cutting engine, producing epicycloidal
teeth.
1824-Ladoc Pratt established his
celebrated tanneries in the Catskills,
New York State.
1S24-Completion of the Erie Canal,
connecting the large lakes with the
Hudson River.
1826-Harrison A. Dyer established
the first telegraph line on Long Island,
making signals with fractional cleo
t1icity.
1827-John McClinter, of Pennsyl-
vania, invented the slotting and shaping
machine.
1828-First American patent for i'm
provements in locomotives granted.
1S2S-First locomotive journey made
on the Honesdale and Carbondale Rail
way, Pennsylvania.
1828-Hay and straw used for the
first time to make paper.
1828-James Bogardus invented the
ring flyer for spinning cotton.
1829-The same invented mills with
concentric grinding surfaces.
1832-James Bogardus invented a
dry gas meter.
1884 Henry Burden invented his
nail making machines.
1S36-James Bogardus invented a
pantograph.
1840-The same invented the molds
to press glass in while blowing.
1841-The same made improvements
in drilling machinery.
Since then inventions and patents
have succeeded another at most
astonishing rate. -MGnufGctarer and
Builder.
The colored Senator, Bruce, is the