Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-27
OUR INVENTIVE GENIUS.
Four Hundred Thousand Pate nts Already
Issued

This month the patents issued by the
United States are numbered 100000 and
| upward. The mere mention of the mum.
Der of inventions should call the attention
of the people to the work that is being
done by the inventive genius of the eoun-
try. Patent No. 100000 was issued in
June, 1884, and patent No 100000 in
March, 1889. The increase of inventions
of late years has been immense. 1t took
from 1870 to lS70to getthe number 100000
In the United States series-about eighty
years-while it took less than FIVE years TO
complete the last 100000
Among all these patents are many hun
dred secured by Pacific coast inventors.
Our files contain pretty complete record
of the progress of invention on this coast.
all inventions of note having been de-
scribed. In 1888, 765 patents were issued
to Pacific coast inventors in 1884 there
were 635; in 1885 there were 6Sl; in 1886,
Goo; in 1887, 635, and last year, 572.
California inventors have originated and
devised many very important things aside
from devices of minor Importance The
insertible saw-tooth of n. W. Spaulding
revolutionized the making of circular
saws. The water-wheels of Knight and
Pelton have attained an efficiency which
has made them known everywhere. The
cable-road inventions of IIallidie, Epples-
heimer, Root, Casebolt, Grim & Low, Ho-
vey and others have made possible the
magnifieently rapid and efficient street.
railroad systems of this and other cities.
In harvesting machinery the improve
ments of Houser, Matteson q Williamson.
the Shippee Company, Holt Bros Best,
Moore and others have almost entirely
stopped the importation of Eastern thrash
ing machinery, and furnish in a compact
form of machine by which the grain is cut,
thrashed, separated, reclaimed and sacked
in complete marketable condition, at a
single operation in the field. The en-
ployment of steam to propel this class of
machinery has received great impetus
from the inventions of G. W. Berry of Vi
salia, who for the past few seasons has
been successfully operating not only these
machines in their season, but huge gangs
of steam plows.
Mr.. Bests inventions in grain-cleaning
machinery are known all over the coast
since 1871. The system of gang-plews
originated here, and is still known as the
Stockton Gang"
In mining machinery we have many in
ventions. The pans of Wheeler, Knox,
Varney and Randall; the ore-crushers or
pulverizers of Dodge, Huntington, Ken
dali, Tutsin, Stiles the concentrators of
Hendy, Morse, Adams Il Carter; the ore
feeders Of Stanford, Tulloch Hendy; the
silver-plated amalgamating plates of Den
nison; the hydraulic nozzles of Craig, Hos
kins and Fisher; Cranston's hydraulic
elevator; the engines and steam machinery
of Stevens, Scott, Eckart, O'Neill, Cross.
Pitchford, Ohmen and Richards; the
pumps of Hooker, Wilcox, Dow. Dickie.
Moore and jackson; quicksilver furnaces
and condensers of Knox, Osborne, White
and Randol; the ore furnaces of Stetefeldt,
Bruckner, Thompson and Rueger-ali
these and many others are of great i'm
portance and value. The whole system of
hydraulic mining, with its appliances, was
devised in California. There have been
great numbers of metallurgical processes
also invented here.
The hay-baling presses, fruit-dry ing ma
chimes, cultivators separators, vineyard
plows, ETC., are numerous. In sawmill and
woodworking machinery Huntington,
Spaulding, Campbell (of Parke 4 Lacy,
Bowen with Tatum & Bowen), Cook with
Gregory q Co.. and Robb have made val
liable and important inventions E. L.
Ransome, and H. G.. Fiske, in artificial
stone-work; 2. ii. Jackson, in Illuminating
tiles, basement extensions, etc; Forderer,
in skylight work Arnold's riyeting ma
chine for leather work; dredging machin-
cry of Angel, Won Schmidt and Bowers
Williams water-jacket furnace; cartridge
loading machinery by Prentiss Selby; ex-
plosive compounds by Judson, Hardy and
Dean; fruit packages of Swan, Morey and
Weston; fruit-pitting and hulling ma
chimes by Head, Donatelli and Alison
agricultural boilers of Head, Enwright
and Rice; Byron Jacksons thrash
ing feeders and straw-stacking ma
chinery; ice machinery of Beth,
kitton, Boyle and Allegretti; logging To-
comotives of Dollbeer & Carson; looms of
Hunt, Morris & Whitcomb magazine
guns of Snyder, Carr and Finch; road To-
comotiyes of Doane, Remington and Price
all these come to mind in thinking of
important California inventions.
In writing these paragraphs many names
have been omitted, as it would be impos-
sible, without considerable research to
make complete list of California inven-
tons. We write from memory only Most
of the things devised here have been
called out by our necessities and the pc
culiar conditions of our industrial occupa-
tions. Machinery made for the purpose
elsewhere did not answer the changed con-
ditions in California, so something newer
and better was demanded, and the demand
was met.-Mining and Scientific Press.