Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-09-12

y. RIM. Toward Storage BATTERIES anu
Gar Couplings ut Present.

=. yo. Toward storage batteries An"
Car Couplings at Present.
.svyb;cb way does mans inventive go
nius seem to tend at present. asAoa I"
renorter of well known patent awe,
"Toward cheap inventions, answer s,.s,
,a .Tbis is essentially an age OF utlhty,
and the cheaper any practical lnVeii'eo
device can be made all the better
aFlectric motors are probably claim
ing the attention of as many iiv taa.';aa
as any other one thing. Storage batteries
are the desideratum. They are placed On
oars upder the seat, and furnish motiVe
nover enough to propel car the course
Of an ordinary round trip, when one pa,
tery ia taken out and another supstituteo,
and SO ON, thus avoiding the use OF al
the machinery now necessary Many VI
these storage batteries are GOOD 700
Electric lights have good tolio"l III,
too. among electrical inventors ne
tendency is to produce something good
and cheap.
"Fire escapes and smoke consumers
claim the attention of many practical
inventors. Some excellent devices nave
been recently patented. One lnvention
ia n kind of ladder which can be placed
instantaneously outside of building
n il a decided novelty and beats any
thing vet out. 1t will probably be placed
On one of the new structures which are
in course of construction III TINS CITY
now.
Gear brakes of all kinds are always
being invented In fact, the attempts &c
secure cheap and rapid transit by means
of some mechanical device are perhaps
as numerous as anything else. Every
thing pertaining to cars, engines rail-
road tracks or motor power in any way
has thousands of devotees who are labor
ing to invent something more practical
than anything in present use. Take car
couplings, for instance. There have al
ready been granted $4,000 patents on in
ventions of that class. Many other things
pertaining to the safety of men who are
employed on railroad trains are patented
nearly as often. But car couplings prob
ably lead
Cash machines, cash registers, penny
slot machines, and such contrivances are
popular, too, with many inventors. An
other practical device which claims the
attention of inventors is the ice machine
Some wonderful improvements have
been made with those machines during
the past year. The telephone formerly
had its followers, but of late years they
have decreased. The invention seems t.
have reached its perfection, at least fo
while. The same is true of the graphic
phone These devices once created ;
craze among certain class of inventor
who, seeking to follow Edison, though
that they could easily immortalize them
selves by inventing something in thi
line. 1t takes man with brains to at
tempt anything in which sound or tn
science of acoustics plays such an I'M
portant part.
"Steam boilers, railway signals, fire
arms, especially heavy artillery, am
other such things, are also popular jus
now. Car heaters are being greatly i'm
proved, too"
''Do women invent many things?"
ga great many household devices an,
domestic labor saving machines are in
vented by women. For instance, churns
cradles, sewing machine devices, and tn
like. Corsets and all such improvement
are generally the inventions Of ladies
Many other practical things are the re
suit Of womans genius An inventiv
woman has great deal of persistency
and will hold on as long as there is
ghost of show in securing a patent"
SIS it generally difficult to secure
PATENT"
"That depends very much. In device
of the same class it requires complet,
change of combination in order to secur
patent. A slight change of some par
or parts is not sufficient. A great man,
things must be borne in mind when seek
ing patent. There are always thou
sands of applications being considered
and the time of the patent commission
ers is pretty well taken up most of tn
time. "-Cincinnati Times-Star.