The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
INVENTIONS oFeRo cx.YN MEN.
New Type.Setting Mae se and an Elec-
frical Smoke-SEi- ing Nose.

met Brooklyn man here in New
| York the other day who has invented
a clever arrangement for. setting type.
which, he thinks, will reyolutionize The
whole business. SAYS writer in the
Brooklya Eagle. It's q very simple
| looking little machine. something like
a typewriter, or at least the keyboard
| is the same. When the compositor
strikes iettered key it throws up into
| line matrix which remains in place.
the next key struck places the next
| along side, and when line of type is
formed melted type is thus cast and set
| up at the same moment. This is re-
moved and the second line formed and
SO on, the work requiring about one
half the ordinary time consumed in
such matters, and the result being that
the type is always fresh and can not be
| pied, as each line is a solid block. As
soon rs the stereotype is made the type
| goes back into the melting pot and is
ready for use again. The n Y. Tri5-
s'ae and the London Times have for a
year or more been employing type-set-
ting machines with n great deal of sue
cess, bat the machine is a laborious
and clumsy affair, and the Brooklyn
man thinks he has improved on it as
much as The second order of sewing
machines improved on the old corn
shelters" that Howe first put upon the
market when it was first invented to
save woman stitches, but which re-
quired about two-horse power to work.
The inventor claims he can make these
machines and sell them for $500, and
hat Il 10 oT A.
men. He is as enthusiastic as most
OF these inventors are, and thinks his
machine viii create dismay in the
Typographical unions. After a while
there will be nothing more for men to
do; machinery will do it all.
There is another Brooklyn man who
spends the great part of his days in
New York, who is also an inventor.
He is rich and belongs to well-known
society people, but likes to dabble in
electrical matters for his own amuse-
ment. His latest device is an electri-
cal nose, which, when it smells smoke,
rings a bell and if it smells very
great deal of smoke turns in a fire
alarm. That sounds like joke, but it
is an actual electrical fact. The dia-
gram of the machine is so treated that
the action OF smoke upon it causes it to
move and set an aiarm-bell ringing,
and this effect, increased, connects
with a fire alarm. 1t is curious to see
the model, which is set up here in the
owners OFFICE, when the inventor puffs
a mouthful of smoke from his cigar
upon it. The bell rings wildly, and if
he continues to blow the smoke in it
makes prompt connection with a fire
alarm. In inventing this nose the
Broohlynite stumbled upon what is
probably one of the most remarkable
discoveries since the discovery of cleo
tricity itself. This new discovery has
not yet been sufficiently tested for the
discoverer to be willing to inform the
world of its nature, but it is likely to
create Il great revolution in the manu-
facture OF all fabrics of every descrip-
ton when he has made sufficient eX-
pertinent TO be sure of his ground.
These inventions stumble so closely
upon each others heels that the faculty
OF wonder loses its sensibility, but
where Il means of suspending II great
natural law is reached one finds it i'm
possible to grasp with the Imagination
the possibility of mans future control
over the inanimate world.