Telegram-herald., 1890-05-21
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"E@ocCrlc motors 49, LG.0bahly clam
tng tAs zttel1o1 4 as Eazuy inventors
as Any 0thsr one thing. Storage batteries
are gAe ees.der2suLz- They ale plsce4 "a
ears, under TIE seat. s-d furnish motive
power enough - prvLssl csr Ihe course
u "a ordinary r0u-d tEip, when o.1e bar-
tery Is taken Oat and aao&hsr substituted,
aud 81 on. thus avoiding ths Ne Il al
the machinery now Necessary Many q
thase storage batteries zre good. too
Electric Lights have q good following,
too. among electrical invsntors- The
tendency l. 70 prodnee something good
and cheap.
Fire escapes and smoke consumers
claim ths attention Of many practical
inventors. Some excellent devices have
been reoently patented One invention
IS kind Of ladder which can 10 placed
iIstaatAneOusly 0utSids of a building.
L Is decided novelty Gnd beats any
thing yet out. II VIII probably be placed
On one % tho new structures which are
IN course Of construction II tais clty
now
Gar brake5 Of al kinds are always
beng invented. h fact, the attempts %
secure cheap and rapid transit by means
OF some mechanical device ara perhaps
As numerous as anything else Every
thing pertaining 70 cars, engines, rail
road tracks or motor power IN any way
has thousands OF dev0teos who ere labor
Ing u invent something more practical
than anything IN present use. Take car
couplings, for instance. There have al
ready been granted 50, 900 patents on in
ventions OF that class. Many other things
pertaining 70 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 contrivauces 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 it's followers, but Of late years they
have decreased. The invention seems to
have reached its perfection, at least for
a while. The same is true Of the graphic
phone. These devices once created a
craze among certain class of inventors
/ who, seeking to follow Edison, thought
that they could easily immortaEze them
selves by inventing something in this
| line. IL takes man with brains to at
tempt anything in which sound or the
science of acoustics plays such an i'm
portant part.
"Steam boilers, railway signals. fire.
arms, especially heavy artillery, and
| other such things, are also popular just
now. Car heaters are being greatly i'm
proved, too"
"Do women invent many things?7
"a great many household devices and
domestic labor saving machines are in
vented by women For instance, churns,
/ cradles, sewing machine devices, and the
/ like. Corsets and all such improvements
/ are generally the inventions Of ladies
Many other practical things are the re-
suit Of woman's genius. An inventive
woman has a great deal Of persistency,
and viii hold on as long as there Is a
! ghost of show in securing patent"
'Is it genarslly difficult 10 secure a
patentT'
THAT depends very much. In devices
Of the same class it requires a complete
! change of combination IN order TO secure
a patent a slight change Of some part
or parts is not sufficient. 4 great many
things must be borne in mind when seek
ing a patent. There are always thou
sands of applications being considered,
and the time Of the patent commission
ers is pretty we'll taken up most Of the
/ time. ."-Cincinnah Times-Star.