The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-08-23


met Brooklyn man here In New
York tho other day who has invented
a clever arrangement for setting type.
which. he thinks. will reyolutionixe the
whole business. says writer In tho
Brooklyn Eagle. It's very simple
looking little machine. something like
typewriter. or at least the keyboard
Is the same. When tho compositor
strikes lettered key it throws up into
line matrix which remains In place.
the next key struck places the next
along side, and when a line OF type Is
formed melted type is thus cast and set
up AZ 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 solid block. As
soon as the stereotype is made the type
goes back into the melting pot and IL
ready for use again. The N. Y. 1rib-
uiae and the London Times have for
year or more been employing type-set-
ting machines with great deal OF sue
cess. but the machine Is lnborious
and clumsy affair. aud tho Brooklyn
man thinks he has improved on IL as
much as the second order of sewing
machines improved on the old corn
shelters that Howe first put upon the
market when IL was first invented 70
save woman stitches, but which re-
CURED about two-horse power To work.
The inventor claims he can make these
machines and sell them for $500. and
that they will do the work Of three
men. He is rs enthusiastic rs most
of these inventors are. and thinks his
machine will create dismay In the
typographical unions. After while
there will be nothing more for men to
do; machinery will do il all.
There is another Brooklyn man who
spends the great part of his days In
New York. who is also nm inventor.
He is rich aud belongs to well-known
society people. but likes to dahble In
electrical matters for his own amuse-
ment. His latest device Is an clectri-
cal nose. which. when IL smells smoke,
rings bell. and IL II smells a very
great deal OF smoke turns Ina q tire
alarm. That sounds like Joke. but Il
is an actual electrical fact. The dia-
gram OF the machine Is so treated that
the action of smoke upon II causes IL To
move and set an alarm-bell ringing.
and this effect, increased, connects
with fire alarm. Ii Is curious TO SEQ
the model. which Is set up here Ia the
owners office. when the inventor pufs
mouthful Of smoke from his cigar
upon IL. The bell rings wildly, and II
he continues TO blow the smoke In IL
makes prompt connection with tire
alarm. In inventing this nose the
Brooklynite 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 IL Is likely to
create great revolution In the manu-
facture of all fabrics OF every descrip-
ton when he has made sufficient ex-
pertinent 10 be sure of his ground.
These inventions stumble SO closely
upon each others heels that tho faculty
of wonder loses its sensibility. but
where a means of suspending great
natural law is reached one finds Il Inn
possible 10 grasp with the imagination
the possibility of mans future control
over the inanimatc world.