The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-05-11


\ so US namo-e electric machines are
S 35s ue1s1 yss pol ted to- els exanpl est Ct
flGAn skill and invention, but moth
Nss4fig GOULD he furth er from the truth. MOL
MI Md Van M deran OF Belgium, aDout
II ysars ago cons tructed the first mag
III oSslectrie machine for producing Inc
"A eetfic lighta type OF machine st1A IN
n IN 1850 DR.. Antonio Paelnottl, a
fesGor in Florence, devised an electro-
II Xretfe machine which embodied IN
n principle all that We find in the more,
improved dynamos Of today. Paclnot-
y ttsS great Invention was the arnature ne
,sseInpioyed, of which all the arii1atHre'
nov In use are only notifications. a
few years later the subject was taken up
gov W.. l5ramme, a Belgian mechanic, and
O. fisexperfments resulted in 1871 III tne
L soduction Of the first successful mod
isfii type OF dynamo that was put on the
q market.
M. Gramme IS likewise the inventor OF
the electro motor, as he was the first to
discover the reversibility Of the arna-
stare OF a dynamo on the passage through
q IL OF an electric current. This Was just
NV pronounced by the eminent English
physicist, Prof. Clarke Maxwell. the
greatest discovery Of the present half OF
1.-THE Nineteenth century.
ss The first electric lamp was invented by
Z Leon Faucanlt in 1S48. The carbons
used for electric lights are the invention
of M. Care. The first storage battery,
than which nothing seems to promise
y greater or more important results III the
1 near future, is the invention OF ,daston
a Plante, d member OF the Cathollo Sci
L entific Society Of Brussels
,ss Benjamin Franklin is reputed to. be
the discoverer Of the identity Of electric
!. ity and lightning and of the issuing OF
electricity from metallic points, but the
credit OF both these discoveries must ba
given to a Bohemian monk. Procopius
4 Diwisch. He was also the inventor of
the first lightning rod. And while this
poor and forgotten priest was making
his great discoveries, Franklin was re-
ceiying his first lessons in electricity
from DR.. Spence "-.'''
So it is in regard. to the steam engine.
Watt s.,lsually considered it's inventor,
/: md yet patents were taken out for steam
engines-and PRACTICAL working en-
eines, too--a full century before Watt
commenced his experiments on the New
comen engine. And this engine, to
which Watt did no~lnore than 70 make
some additions, was, after ali, only an
A Improvement on an engine constructed
by Slavery, who appropriated in toto the
|: work and inventions of the Marquis Of
Worcester. And this marquis Of Wor-
cestershire. the first inventor Of an act
llal steam engine, for which he received
q patent from parliament in 1663--just
100 years before Watt took up model
Of a Newcomer engine in Glasgow coll
Il lege, and 100 years before he took out his
: first patent--Was a devout Catholic.
So, too, It is respecting the application
4 afss5steam TO propelling boats. Robert
Fulton is famed as the inventor OF the
steamboat ana still he is not its inven-
tor. Far back in 1913 Blacn RE Garay,
Spanish sea captain, exhibited in the
harbor OF Barcelona, in the presence Of
Charles v. and many Of his court boat
propelled by steam which WIS capable Of
going at the rate Of a league an hour
Rlaco de Garays Invention lay dormant
xor more than two centuries. Toward
the latter part Of the Eighteenth CEN
tury the subject was taken up again by
several persons in Europe and in this
country, and eventually resulted in Rob
err Fuiton's Clermont, which made her
trial trip from New York to Albany in
1906. =.