The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-02

printing press. no practical woodworking
machinery nor great furniture stores, no
passenger elevator no asphalt pavement
no steam fire. engine, no triple expansion
stream engine, no Giffard injector, no cell
luloid, no barbed wire fence no time lock
for safes no self-binding harvester, no
oil nor gas wells. no Ice machines nor cold
storage. We lose the photograph and
graphophone, air engines, stem winding
watches, cash registers and cash carriers,
the great suspension bridges, iron frame
buildings, monitors and heavy ronclads,
revOlvers torpedoes, magazine gurs and
Calling guns, linotype machines, all prac-
tical typewriters. all pasteurizing, knowl-
edge of microbes OF disease germs, and
sanitary plumbing, water gas. soda water
fountains, air brakes. coal tar dyes and
medicines, nitro-glycerine, dynamite and
guncotton, dynamo electric machines,
aluminium ware, electric locomotives,
Bessemer steel, with its wonderful devel-
opments, ocean cables, etc. The negative
conditions of that priOd extend into such
an appalling void that we stop short,
shrinking from the thought of what it
would mean to modern civilization to elm
mate from its life these potent factors of
its existence.
Passing now to the chronological de-
velopment of the period, Morse had just
harnessed the most elusive steed of all
natures forces, and put 1t in the perma-
nent service of man; when nitro-glycer-
inc discovered by Sobrero in 1916, for the
first time lent its terrible emphasis, and
seemed to bring an awakening of the dor
mant genius of man.
Within the first. decade CiS46-1S56) came
the sewing machine, Bafns chemical tele-
graph, the Suez Canal, the House printing
telegraph, the Mccormick reaper, the dis
coVery Of the planet Neptune, the Corliss
engine the collodion and dry-plate process
ses in photography, the Ruhmkorm coil,
the Bass time lock for safes, the electric
fire alarm of Claiming & Farmer, Gintles
duplex telegraph, the sleeping car of
Woodruff. Wilson aforementioned feed for
the sewing machines, Ericsson s hot air en-
gine, the Niagara suspension bridge, and
the building of the Great Eastern.
The next decade QS56-1S66) brought with
il the Atlantic cable, the discovery of the
aniline dyes by Perkin, the making of
paper pulp from wood, the discovery Of
coal oil In the United States, the invention
of the circular knitting machine, the Gift
fard injector, for supplying feed water to
steam boilers; the discovery of caesium,
rubidium, indium and thallium; the Nc
| Kay shoe-sewing machine, Ericsson's iron
| clad monitor, NobeFs explosive gelatine
| the Whitehead torpedo, and the first en-
bodiment of the fundamental principles of
the dynamo electric generator by Hjorth
| of Denmark.
The next decade s1sS66-1S76) marks the
| beginning of the most remarkable period
Of activity and development in the his
| tory of the world. The perfection of the
dynamo, and its twin brother the electric
motor, by Wilde, Siemens, Wheatstone,
| NdFleN, dIIUSIs NTTdlume, Brush, w Ell
son, Edison, Thomson and others, soon
| brought the great development of the
| electric Hight and the electric railways
| Then appeared the Bessemer process of
! making steel; dynamite; the St. Louis
! bridge; the Westinghouse air brake, and
| the middlings purifying and roller pro-
| cesses in milling. That great chemist and
| probably greatest public benefactor, Louis
| Pasteur, added his work to this period ;
| the Calling gun appeared; great devel-
opments were made in ice machines and
| cold storage equipments; machines for
making barbed wire fences; compressed
air rock drills and the Mont Cents tun-
| nell pressed glassware; Stearns duplex
! telegraph and Edisons quadruplex; the
cable car system Of Hallidie and the
| Janney car coupler; the self binding reap
er and harvester; the tempering of steel
| wire and springs by electricity; the Lowe
process for making water gas; cash car
| riers for stores and machines for making
| tin cans.
With the next decade (1S76-1SS6) there
| arose star of the first magnitude in the
| constellation of inventions. The railway
and telegraph had already made all peo-
| pie near neighboTs, but it remained for
| the Bell telephone to establish the close
| kinship CT one great laxative family in
| constant Intercourse, the tiny wire, sem
! tient and responsive to the familiar voice.
| transmitting the message with tone and
! accent unchanged by the thousands of
| miles of distance between. Thep come in
| order the hydraulic dredges, and Missis-
sippi jettes of Eads; the Jabloehkoff cleo
| trio candle: photography by electric light ;
| the cigarette machine; the Otto gas en-
| CINE: the great improvement and develop
ment of the typewriter; the casting of
| chilled car wheels; the Birkenhead and
| Rabbeth spinning spindles. and enameled
| sheet iron ware for the kitchea Next the
| phonograph of Edison appears, literally
| speaking for itself, and reproducing HUI
| man speech and all sounds with startling
| fidelity. Who can tell what stores Of in
| teresting and instructive knowledge
would be in our possession if the phono-
graph had appeared in the ages of the
past, and its records had been preserved.
The voices of our dead ancestors, of
DemoSthenes and Cicero, and even of
Christ himself speaking as he spake unto
the multitude, would be an enduring real
ity and a precious legacy. In this decade
we also find the first electric railway oper-
ated in Berlin; the development of the
| storage battery; Welding metals by cleo
tricty; passenger elevators; the construc-
| production of many useful medicines, dyes
and antiseptics, from the coal-tar pro-
ducts, and the Cowles process for manu-
featuring aluminium.
In the last decade QSS6-lS96) inventions
in such great numbers and yet of such
Importance have appeared that selections
seems impossible without doing Injustice
| to the others. The graphophone; the Pull
man and Wagner railway cars and Vesti-
buled trains; the Harvey process of an
healing armor plates; artificial silk from
pyroXylne; automobile of horseless car
rlages; the Zalinski dynamite gun; the
Mergenthaler linotype machine, molding
and setting its own type, whole line at