The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-01-14
AMERICAN INGENUITY.
Chronological Account OF some Early Km-
VenetOnB and Enterprises.
Manufacturer and Builder1


IManufacturer and Builder.1
1786-The first steam engine built
after the Newcomer type, for the Schuy
Ter copper mines.
1772-Another similar engine, made
Tor factory in Philadelphia.
. 1765-Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia
introduced steam power to drive houi
mill and brickyard.
17s5-Jarnes Rufnsey propelled yes
Bel on the Potomac River by the reaction
of the water,
1787-Perkins invented a nail cutting
machine which could make 200, 900 nails
per day.
I78S-John Fitch navigated the Della
ware River with the first steamboat.
l7G4-Whitney's cotton gin invented
| 6-Benjatnin Thompson, otherwise
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 inoderh
theory of the conservation Of forces.
| 1877 Benjamin Thompson invented a
brush-making machine
| 1797-Akhds Whitteinofe introduced a
machine for making the cards used in
cotton and WOODEN manufacture.
l798-Robert Mexican patented the
first steam saw-min
| 1799-Oliver Evans, OF PHILADELPHIA.
made the first high-pressure steam en-.
! CINE, and built steam carriage, which,
however, was not a success.
| 1904 Col. John Cox Stevens invented
the screw propeller, the model of which
is still at the Hoboken IN. ~ Institute
for Engineers,
1804-Oliver Evans built a paddle
wheel steamer, to ply on the Delaware
and Schuylkill rivers, driven by a
| double-acting high-pressure engine; also
adapted for land conveyance.
1800-1homas Blanchard, of Massa.
chusetts, invented a Matchmaking ma.
chine, which made $4,000 tacks per
hour.
l807-fhomas Blanchard made an ap-
paratus adapted for riding gun barrels.
18O7-RObert Fulton travelled with
his first steamboat from New York to
Albany.
18O7-OiI cloth for floor carpeting first
made in philadelphia.
1807-John Redford invented and
manufactured metal-bouhd boots and
shoes.
1811-John II. Hall, of Massachusetts
invented breech-lOading muskets.
1812-George Shoemaker sold in Phil
adelphia several truck-loads of anthra-
cite coal for fuel, and was imprisoned as
an imposter for selling stones for coal.
1813-Francis G. Lowell made impot-
tant improvements in the power loom.
1817-George Clymer produced the
first American made printing press.
18lS-Jacob Perkins introduced steel
engravings as a substitute for copper.
l8l9-Ihe Savannah made the first
passage across the Atlantic Ocean bv
steam power driving paddlewheels.
l820-Henry Burden, of Troy, N. Y,
invented the cultiYator
l821-The same inventor improved
rolling mills.
182l-Jordan t. Mott invented utili-
EatioSof small coal for furnaces.
l022-James Mcdonald, of New York, |
invented machinery for cleaning fax
and hemp.
IS28-Jos. Saxon invented a wheel |
cutting engine, producing epicycloidal
1S24-Ladoc Pratt established his eel
ebrated tanneries in the Catskills, New
York State,
1824-Completion of the Erie Canal,
the large lakes with the Hud,
son river.
1826-Harrison A. Dyer established |
the first telegraph line on Long Island. I
making signals with fractional cleo,
tricity.
1827-John McClinter, of Pennsvl-
7ania, invented the slotting and shaping
1828-F'irst American patent for i'm
orovements in locomotives granted.
1828-First locomotive journey made
IN the Honesdale and Calbondafe rail
way Pennsylvania.
1828-Hay and straw used for the first
line to make paper
1923 James Bogardus Invented the
ing flyer for spinning cotton
1829-The same invented mills with
eccentric grinding surfaces. .-a
l832-James Bogardus invented a drv
Jas meter
1834-Henry Burden invented his nail
making machines .-T-.
1886 james Bogardus invented a
autograph. ........
1910 The same invented the molds to
ress glass in while blowing.
184l-The same made Improvements
n drilling machinery.
Since the conventions and patents
ave succeeded in another at a most
stonishing rate.