The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24
Great Works Which They Have
Done for the World.
GOV. LEVI X. FULLER PRESENTS
THE FACTS
MOST INTERESTINGLY AND IN
STRUCTIVELY.
Morey and the Steamboat.
THOMAS DAVENPORT AND THE TELE.
GRAPH.

The Electric Motor, and Electric Eoad-
Gov. Holbr0Ok and His Piow-Wheeiei
and the Revolver-Pike and the CaunoDT
| John Gore and His Steam Carriage m
the Suggest0r of the Steam Road Roller
The Bed Stead Fastener and Other Brat
| tleboro Inventlons-The Scale and Marble
| Inventions stewart and the Cookie
Stove II. NJ. Smith, L. Hedge. Silas Har
| ris, WardxslI, LamsOD, BAH and all the
| Other VermOnters Distinguished IN In
ventiOn.
Gov Fuller gave his paper on "Vermont In
a Century of Invention" before the Braltle.
boro Professional Club Monday evening, and
| 1t was not only one of the most interesting
| for richness and extent of Information In the
clubs history, but It Is one of the most graf
| flying and valuable contributions ever made
| to Vermont's history. The Governor was
strongly urged by the gentlemen OF the clue
! to put the paper into the permanent form OF q
| book. and he will do so II be can ever get
time to arrange It In shape to suit himself. In
the meantime, that there may be no chance
of losing so noteworthy work, the REFORM
Err publishes the paper In full as 1t was read.
Gov Fuller has also accumulated vast deal
more of matter on this subject which time
and space forbade bis embUdying In bis paper,
and the RHFoRNEr will also publish that In
the future II it can obtain 1t.
Vermont has IN her history secured 5000
patents for Inventions, and 400 of them In
types-an extraordinary record indeed. Gov.
Fuller deals with the leading ones that have
had the most influence on the mechanics and
the industrial o ogress OF the last century.
He establishes decislvely thata Vermonter,
Samuel Morey, was the inventor OF the steam.
boat, and the probability that Fulton pllfered
the idea. He exhibited to the club large
quantity of evidence on the subject Including
the origin II patents and Q mass OF correspon.
dence written at the time. He showed that
Vermont blacksmith. Thomas Davenport,
was the pioneer IN the wonderful electrical
inventions OF the age. that he at least fur.
nished the basic idea OF the telegraph, and
constructed the first electric motors. and
model for the electric railway as far back as
1885.
He shows the typewriter, the revolver, the
steel pitchfork, the carpenters square, the
modern cooking stove, the railroad snow
pIow, the clothes pin, the shook and eye",
the swivil plow, gold plating and host OF
other epoch.makng devices to have lad
their inception In Vermont. 10 the one or
two cases where there may be doubt he shows
that there Is strong reason for the claim.
He shows the vast achievements In scale mar
utactures and marble and stone quarrying
that have been made In the characteristic In
dustrIes of Vermont. He says nothing Of
taeture, for which oil over the country
Brattleboro has furnished the INSPIRATION,
.he genius and the training, to an extent
that she may truly be called the "mother of
reed organ manufacture" This we hope to
get In future PAPER. The paper also says
nothing OF the governors own inven-
tions for which he has received above 100
patents, one OF them for an Improvement In
steam engines that Is now In universal use.
lie also invented, as was brought out In the
discussion, practically the same appliance as
Is now used in heating ears by steam, but did
not take out patent on It.
He shows that Brattleboro and Windham
county have been fertile In inventions out
side OF the musc line. There are 10 of the
original types aud important classes, which
he mentions to the credit of Brattleboro and
81 to the county. Following Is the paper.