The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-03-24

OF a logical mind while working out problem
lie was then struggling TO- new start In life
He said his stone mus be adapted to the want
Of poor man, In order to cook his food wei
and thoroughly and bake his bread on al
sides; a single stick of wood as large as
mans arm was to furnish The fire. BE spill
1t into three small sticks. laid them side b.
! side. but spread out they would not burn, b.
held In his hand paper and philosophical
, thus: "lf turn up the sides of the sheet bring
Ing the wood so near together that they toucl
then they will burn, and the sides will throw
off heat enough to beat the oven, back ant
: 'front.'" so he cried Eureka and told his wifi
of his invention.
He made sheet iron box for an oven, ant
into this he suspended bis fire box. No such
thing bad ever before been beard of and witt
the three sticks OF wood be performed the
: work necessary for himself and wife, anC
upon the bed of Goals already made, single
stick sufficed for ironing.
Thus simply, yet under great distress az
know. was the modern cooking stove evolved
! The Marble Quarry Machine.
, The marble quarrIes Of Vermont were orig.
inally worked entirely by hand, the blocks
being cut much as they are now,e kept Of less
, thickness. This cutting at that time was
wholly accomplished by hand,a large force of
Rutland, where the main qnarr'es then were
developed. To Mr.. B,rnes of West Rutland
Is attributed the first discovery and working
these quarries which was done for many years
in small way, even before the Introduction
OF railroads, the marble being fre'ghted by
horse power to the Lake, to be sent to the
more distant markets by water. The expense
of cutting by hand with the troubles incident
to strikes which frequently occur, Undue I'd
the owners OF the quarries, aud more especia'-
~ Mr.. Wardwel,th a resident of St. johns.
bury. to invent machine to do the work OF
n hnn - Ah o. =
| Is still In use, and has been a very valuable
machine In Increasing the product of marble
and reducing the cost of producing the same.
After some years trial CT this machine upon
the quarries both at West Rutland and
Sutherland Falls, (known now as Proctor,)
Mr.. L'mpson OF Windsor, conceived the idea
OF some improvements. and suggesting same
In general form to Albert Ball. now the ef-
fcient superintendent Of the Sullivan Ma thine
Co. OF Claremont, n. H., he go improved a
machine somewhat like thu Wardwell ma
chine that for a while 1t promised to displace
1t entirely or become formidable rival to 1t.
A serious and expensive litigation soon arose
about the rights of priority. controlling
soma points In the Lampson machine, be-
| tween the Wardwell Company and the latter
company. and the courts deciding against the
latter company they were set aside aud since
then have been wholly In disuse. About this
time Mr. Ball conceived the idea of channel
ing marble by black diam onds set in the he I'd
of a revolving drill to cut down to the bottom
of the channel and by means of inter. COM
municating holes. do what had before been
done by the Wardwell and Lamuson machines
in a more expeditions and economical manner.
while at the same time saving much loss In
the marble, arising In the former case from
fractures 0ccasioned by the heavy blows of
the gang drill. For many years this inven-
ton of Mr.. Ball so took tue precedence
In the marble quarries of Vermont, on ac-
count Of Its greater efficiency. that It very
nearly supplartad the Wardweil machine,
and except for the varying price of black dia.
monds. which at times seems to be forced up
by a Jewish syndicate In Europe, these ma
chimes would continue now to be the most
valuable machines In use. In the meantime
one MIR. Ross of Rutland, conceived the idea
OF lifting and striking with gang of drills
directly attached to the piston of the engine,
and so far as my knowledge goes was the
first one to bring ont the machine. This
however h ad Its difficulties on account OF the
trouble In regulating the hardness of the
blow so struck. although in every other re-
sDect 1t seemed to be a success. Next came
the invention OF Sargent of New York, who
attempted to do the work In the same way
with greater rapldity. but bis machine was so
constructed that It did not accomplish salts
factorily what he proposed 1t would DO. |
Afterwards. Mr.. Bal who had given the mat |
ter long study. invented and patented a me- |
chine of much lighter construction, remedy.
ing all the defects existing In the Sargent ma |
chine, or what Is now known as the niger
soil, which machine being pnt upon the mar.
ket and tried fully in the different parts of the |
country. seems to meet all the requirements |
ofthe different quarr'c7. both marble, lime |
stoGe. sand stone, and free stone, In all paris |
of the country, and IS the now generally /
adopted and Is most fully In use In the impor-
tant aud successful quarries of Vermont as
well as all over the country. DIR. Ball is also
the inventor of machine known az the CAD
der. to inder bore the marble strips or block
after channels were cut for the purpose of
lifting the strips with wedges, which strips
were often raised 10 the length of from 40 to
10 feet. Thts1nachine is adapted to bore up
and down the face OF these strips to snlit
them to any length which may be
required for the blocks. 1t works also upon
an angle In such amanner as tn make a line
Of splitting holes to divide the different grades
Of marble as they aredeposited In the quarry.
In addition to these machines, Mr. Ball has
also Invented and patented machine to work
Upon anv angle so that the marble can be
,hanneled and raised upohits bed, and split !
across the grain, thus do'nA away with tie
'ormer method of making theae books In dta. !
nond form. and wasting muchN mock the reby. /.
This machine IS generally adopted. and 1t will !
lot be long before all the valuable, quarries ,,
will be worked upon their dip,aS thfs, certain /,
y Is the most reasonable way of doing BUSH ,
less. Mr.. Bal has also In thu past summer i
invented a radical wall cutting machine which
5 used where the marble turns to one side OR :.
he other under the superintendent mass OIL !.
line stone and rock, and enables the producer !.
o quarry 1t out literally much the same as has I
een done with the other machines wien 1t Is
worked vertically. This invention with that q
t the diamond drills saves large expense In =
marrying for the marble which has taken a !,
urn, as heretofore In producing this stock a =,
.ho ,ba,, LoI LoI
,orked out By hand to get room to put me- :,
hines on the top to work the rock as In the i.
Id method of perpendicular quarrying. =
Steel gadders have also been invented by ~
Ir. Sargent and Mr.. Ball, each OF which is !,
aluable, and have strong competition with =.
ach other for the lead. Blasting machines u
r drilling machines for blasting with single !,
ole have also called upon the inventive !. u
enius of the age which has produced many Ie
( various types. and here Mr.Bsl has shown AZ
Is g,nfls liz recent invention of utility and .,
isptabllity to the various difficult positions "
which machines OF this kind are required u
be used where quick work aud saving Of
Dor ia transportation and setting up of ms. p'
hines or habd-cuttes become an object Of pr
luch value IN their use. u
he Morey Claim for the Steamboat Inyen. ps
ton Estab Ished. or
In the life OF Robert Fulton. BY Knox. It 10 dl
,lsted that Samuel Morey, between 1870 and 10
,9I, made experiments on the Connecticut al
yer by prop cling boats by steam. The facts Is
Dpear TO be these: Gen. Israel Morey of He tr
ron, Conn.,. moved 10 Oxford, N. H.. 10 fiji
'65 aud 10 Fairee, VT. In 1II2. He soon
tier obtained charter for a ferry between "a
lie towns of Fsirlee, VT. and Oxford, NH, d'
,ross the Connecticut river. lie had five to
ms and two daughters. Tue second son. W
apt. 5 ,muei Morev, Is without doubt emit ~
ed to the credit of having invented. built p
nd operated . steam boat at his fathers fer +
between Oxford ard Fairlee in 1870 to
9i, or more than Is years before Fulton te
instructed the "Clsremont' on the Hudson IN
yer ard Il the nerscn aliud I'd To In the h. nc