The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-01
WANTED, A NOVELTY.
"There Is N, New Thiog Under the SUM-"


We unite in hailing the electric tele-
pTaDh as the wonder of the age, but the
fd.a is as old as 1857, at least Scher-
weRt.r in that year eXpla MS how two
individuals an communicate with each
othert1 means of the magnetic needle.
In l746 lie Monnier, by a series OF ex-
peIiments in the Royal Gardens in Paris,
showed Low electricity cotLd De Trans
1,-,ttad throu b iron wire $50 fathoms in
Io.,-tb and i'm 1888 there was a remark
all. deScr,Tt ON OF the ele, tr C telegraph
in the Scots Magazine, III an artlcie
entitled " An Expeditions Method ol
CONVEYING Intelligence, by ChaIicS
MARSHALL In 1774 ve find an electric
fe....,r4ph in full wOrki.g order, ana
car,.i It, OF traus.i.i ittIu1 mes ages
4. is WAS lac INVENTION OF George Louis
are of & CIt.y,l. wEO 1IHoint II III
17GU His instrument was comp Sed OF
tyyeutv-Four metallic wires, separate
from zach other and luc!oscd l" nom
conducting substance. La'h wire eHCeu
i'm "a stalk ruouut,d With tile bail OF
elder wood Suspc dcd 10y SILK thread.
When a stream OF elcctuciiA, no mate
how ,li.,ht wa~ sent through the WIZ,
the cider ball at he enc was r'peiied,
such movement utSloiIa'iH6 OA1N '0''
OF he alphabe.
fevy Years later, in Arthur Youngs
g. Travels in France" " we rcaa OF sim
liar machine, the inv nlIon OF d NJ
Iomond of Paris.
/ photography Is only a skillful devel-
! op1nent OF a very old idea. Sun-palnt-
I ine, bv the dagucrrCO y e was known 10
/ leonardo da Incl III the fifteenth cen
1 turv. The art then lay n oblivion III
/ J7e0 when il was clearly Indicated IN
. hook published in Paris entitled : Glp-
hantie" written by Tiphanie de La
/ Roche.
ga Io,1as Watt made experiments on
fbe action of light upon nitrate OF slIVeI
at the beginning of the present century,
and many years after, among inc Olu
hou ehold lumber of WATTS paIIIIeL'
Matthew Boulton, was iouhd IePi oS,Sii- 80
tatiou OF the old premis at Soho' on d
silvered copper plate, apparently
by some such process, ,
We often hear the Thames tunnel clIeu
ae an example of the wonderful genius
of modern engineering, but the tuhheI
under The Euphrates at ancient bIoS .pn 1I
va aouallvvon derful and that under the
wide mouth of the harbor at MaFsGi4Ie7 e
was a greater enterprise, while ooJh
these ancient works were as sklILIuI4y eA-
ecuted as the modern.
In a museum at Venice there are
numerous fire arms Of the fifteenth ana
sixteenth centuries that fCrestau many
of our most recent improvements, sucn
as revolving pistols, riied muskeIs' anE
breech-lOading cannon,
steam locomotion by sea and land had
always been dream Of scientists. AS
early as l543 BlascO de GaTay tried tC
accomplish it in the harbOr OF Barcelona
Denis Papin made similar attempt a.
Cassel n 1907. But it was not til
the problem of the steam engine ha'
been solved by Watt that the idea o
steam Iocomotion could be put L
practice.
Thouch Denis Papin was unsuccessful
90, l.Nn L. .nnTnF
tion. to him is due the credit or haVln
first thrown out the idea OF atmospherl
: locomotion, and another FrenchmaI
Gauthey, in 1882, projected metho
+ of conveying parcels and merchandise
t similar to the now familiar pneumati
= tube.
The re- ~pfng-machine is an old inven
tion RaTnaGe Goo, e, in Il book trans
lated ON the German, entitled " 1h'
Whole Ar,e Of Husbandrie,' publishe'
in 1877. speaks Of it as w"rn-out ID
yention-a thing q" which was wooLt q
be used in France. The eNlee was
lowe kinde OF carre, with COUPE =
xheeles. and the frUnt armed with Shar
I evckJes yhiche, forced by the beast
through the corne, did cut down al bt
fore It This tricke might be used ]
Iev.U and champion countreyS, but VII
ms It woIde make but ili-favore
woorke." uD,
Gnnrowder was known to the Roman
! though they only used it for hIeworK
and the secret Of the terrible an
destructive Greek hre mas teoh 1O
- Snsnension bridges were known
&c china for centuries, and the peop
of the same country used coal g
regularly or lighting purposes lol
before we did.