The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-04

up the effort. and in many instances win
success in subsequent ventures
a lock with 5000 combinations is a wo-
man 5 invention; also deter box for the
outside of houses that shows a signal
when there is a .etter inside for the post
man TO collect. an invention now in daily
use. Improved cantoenS and soldiers
camp-beds aud TENS are Women's patents
An English woman has JUS perfected a
most valuable apparatus for removing
wool from skins by electricity. At different
times women have patented inventions re-
Iatlng 10 horseShoing and an especially
speedy and profitable process for making
horseshoos was invented by an English
woman y Swiss woman has taken our
latent in this country for aluminium
solder. Rhode Island woman has the
credit of inyentins an improved button
hole-cutting machine by which the dis
lance between the button-holes is meas
ured automatically.
Much of the activity that women now
exhibit in inventive fields Is attributed 10
their better facilities for education, the col
iege standard that now obtains and pop
lGar courses in sloyd and manual train
ing. \ Soodly proportion of the success
tul inventions. however. are produced by
women who have had only medium or lin
lied advantages in this regard. but have
been practical workers in the various lines
OF industry
In our own country Mrs. Mary Kics
was the first woman TO take out a patent
she invented a process for weaving straw
with silk or thread, and the process was
hrst put into practice in 1893 1t was six
years later before any other woman secur-
ed patent. and then it was for inVentius
corset. Dnring the next quarter of q
century only fifteen patents were grant
ed to women, these included globe for
teaching geography, baby jumper,
stove-toot, and a shcet-iron shovel Thir-
tY-ilNe patents were taken OUT by women
in the next twenty-five years. and some
of the titles sound strange to modern cars
Surh, for instance, as a balloon calash Tor
ladies' fan attachment for rocking
chair was got out by a woman i'm ISIS.
also a model sad-ron, and Il recipe for
lavender baisam. When we come down to
the early sixties, an improved imitation
of braided human hair is recorded as the
Invention of a woman; also a novel darn
mS-iast and an improved hoop-skirt.
The high schools that were opened TO
women in 1859 had given them insight into
many things which did not specially cou-
Germ womeu's interests. and then the civil
war forced them into new avenues of
thought and work number Of Western
women who took their husbands places
on the farms invented improved agriCul-
tura implements bout this time A currJ
comb was one WOman's contribution, and
several women VINO went into the shoe
shops and manufacturing mills took out
patents on different kinds Of machinery.
From nursing in the hospitals, that at that
time were crude and lacking in comforts
and conVeniences, women got practical
ideas Of the needs in sick-room and in med
zeal appliances, and set to work 10 better
them. After the civil war a considerable
increase is noticed in the number of wo-
mems inventions. and within the last
IL h ffs.1f
152 models exhibited in the government
department al the Atlanta Exposition
served to show. That was the first occa-
sion that any effort had been made to
demonstrate woman's work. i'm the invent
i've field, and since then the patent Office
has had q specially classified list of No-
mems Inventions prepared and published
foE public inspection.
The list of patents granted to women
during any two consecutive months of the
present year shows a wide divergence in
the subjects that have engaged attention
A woman pupil al a New York school of
embalming invented a burial apparatus
that has been approved by popular under
takers. An electric alarm-clock was re-
Gently invented by a woman; also a fire
escape device, a brake for vehicles a
fruit-press. a carpet stretcher, an invalid
chair. system of VentiIating buildings, a
barrel-tapping and employing Device a
nammer-guard Tor firearms, Hie-preSerV-
ers, botte-flling apparatus, and innumer-
able domestic appliances.
Trademarks for patent medicines, COM
plexion ointments, hair-restorers, soaps,
and perfumes are also registered at the
patent Office by women in ever increasing
numbers, and a fair proportion of these
specially" goods inventors and makers
have won fortunes either through their
business shrewdness in putting their goods
en- the market or because of the actual
merit of the articles. Authorities agree
that a greater number of women inven-
tors have succeeded in the field of house,
hold appliances than in any other line; next
come the inventors of toys, puzzles. chill
dren's games, and tricks such as are sold
on the streets. Singular as it may seem
in the matter of small inventions for sim
plifving woman's wardrobe men have gem
/ orally led the way, and even to-day men
take out more patents of this nature than
women do. On the other hand. women
| have been of marked assistance to men in
vestors in various mechanical lines of in
/ vention.
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