The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-06-13
MODERN MACHINES.
iome Introduced Since 1880 Hav
Sold to an Enormous Extent.

,ome Introduced Since 1880 Haw
Sold to an Enormous Extent.
Right here in the Patent Office you
nay watch the forward rush Of civ
lization and realize how rapid it is"
said Chief Examiner Greely. "Prooa'
oly it has never occurred to you to con-
sider how many arts and industries
hat are Of Importance to-day were un.
known in 1880. Their creation has Civ.
IN employment to tens Of thousands
IF people and to billions Of dollars OF
capital. If we were thrown back only
so far as a decade and a half, we
should find ourselves deprived Of num-
oerless comforts, and even necessarieS
as we now regard them, which were
aot obtainable at all fifteen years ago
1.-The self binding harvester Is new
,1nce 1880, commercially speaking. Il
renders possible the gathering OF Ger
tain cereal crops with rapidity unap
proachable by hand labor. Hundred
If thousands of men would be required
10 reap the harvestS of the great North
west without the aid Of this machine
II has made practicable the raising oi
crops far larger than could be pro
luced and garnered otherwise. Incl
dentally, food has been cheapened.
''The typewriter was not put on tn,
market until 1888. 1t seems wonderful:
that We could have got along at all
without it. In eleven years from S25,
100000 to SSO,O0O,000 worth Of type
writer's have been sold. This machine
has opened q new field for womant
work. 1t has increased the demand foI
writer's of shorthand very greatly. The
quantity Of matter actually written has
been enormously increased by this In
vention. 1t has rendered letter writing
so easy that many people now main
tain a large correspondence who would
write very few letters by longhand
Merchants write more than twice rs
many letters as they used to, and the
volume Of the mails has been proper
tionately augmented.
"Who, IN 1880, had ever heard Of
gripman' or 'motormanT The cable
and electric roads are new since then
The cost Of constructing and equippinA
them Is mainly for labor, and In this
way employment has been given tc
great numbers of men. These move
systems Of traction have given work to
regiments of honest fellows who now
wear uniforms. When horse cars are
superseded by electricity or the cable
The number of passengers carried Is al
ways greatly increased and more cars
pre run, requiring a larger number OF
employees. The labor at the powe!
houses Is better paid than at the sta
bles.
1.-The last fifteen years have witnessed
he creation Of the electric light, the
electric railway and telephone and o
large variety Of industries depending
on electricity. The inventions on
which they are based have deprived no
body Of employment On the contrary
they have opened entirely new fields
and fresh demands for labor. Without
the aid Of our patent system, which
holds out to the inventor the prospect
Of reward, how many Of these ideas
which represent the forward steps OF
civilization, would remain without frui
If not unthought Of?
The two most important Of the very
recent inventions are the type-making
machine and the cash register. The
latter has already put on the market
e15OOO,00O or $20,000,000 worth OF
material, the cost Of which is mainly
labor. Let US not forget to mention
In the list Of novel industries the man.
ufacture Of the bicycle, which is new
commercially, since $780,"