The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-01-21

Mckinney. Texas Dear lIaphammet
Some people seem &c think thai the great
est Inventors are of the Ninelecnth ccu-
tury, but II YOU go back nearly 1000 years
ou will learn ttgt steel was used by 10 +
E0ptian4 Pictures on The Mcnphita
t3mhs seem a. represent butchers shW?
enng their knives on bar OF steel, Ihey
tEgyptiansl showed great skill N casting
soldering and ailoying metals, Some OF
their brorze implements after being cN-
posed TO the damp climate OF Europe II
ter being buried are still smooth aud
bright They possessed the art OF imr
parting elasticity to bronze or brass and
OF OVERLAPPING bronze with rich green by
means Of acids Tho Egyptians made glass
colored with some secret coloring Whlch
the best Venitian glass makers OF today
are unable to discover. Their glass mo
safes we're TO delcately ornamcntcd that
soma OF the feathers can only be seen
clearly with lens, which would imply that
this means OF magnifying was used in
Egypt Gems and precious stones were
successfully Initiated in glass. Wilker60n
says; THE mock pearls found by me Ia
Thebes were SO well oounterfeiled that
even now Il is difficult 10 detect tho impo-
sition' About $500 years ago gold aud
silver were woven into cloth and used IN
embroidery. Gold rings, bracelets, arm
were common at the same time. Objects
OF art were sometimes made Of silver or
bronze inlaid With gold, or Of haser met
ais gilded so as TO have the effect of gold
ln cabinet work Egypt eNceiled. and house
furniture assumed graceful and elegant
forms. Flax and cotton were grown, and
great perfection was reached in spinning
and weaving.
Linen cloth OF exquisite texture has beer
IL t,c -
fax strings used for towing nets were so
hnely spun that it was said "a man could
carry nets enough to surround whole
wood"
Wooden hoes. shovels, forks, piows and
other implements aided the farmer in his
work. The carpenter had his hammer, ak,
hle, adj. handsaw, chisel, drill, plane,
ruler and plummet.
The public weigher had his stamped
weights and measures, and the delicate
scales for balancing the gold and silver
rings used as currency.
Musicians played on pipes, harps, flutes.
guitars, Tyres, tambourines and cymbals,
while drums and trumpets cheered the SOL
der in his march. In 1889 several flutes
we're found In an Egyptian tomb. Their
Instruments. which are over 5000 years
old, give the exact sounds OF our diatonlc
scale. All this proves that the Egyptiang
people OF the world. Could the inventors
OF the Nineteenth century do as well as
the Egyptians II they lived 5000 years ago.
After 5000 years the inventions OF the
Nineteenth century were invented. The
inventors OF the present time have q good
many advantages over those 5000 or 1000
years ago. Who would have thought that
they could make glass md ornament j.
with such fine figures that II would take a
magnifyng glass 10 sec shem9
The Chinese Invented gunpowder, the
compass and porcelain The Eighteenth
century was great era OF invention. In
1908 Newcomer and Cawley patented the
lrst steam engine worth the name 10 Eng
land. and James Watt In 1765 invented the
condenser that. with other improvements
rendered this machine commercially sue
cessfuI The application OF steam power
10 machinery wrought a revolution in COM
merce manufactures. arts and social life,
apa Immensely aided In The progress OF
civilization. The difference between the
me- haEical Workmanship of hs Eigh-
iteealh and Nlnetcanth centuries may Le
seen in he almost incredible fact that
( Watt "a making his 6rst engine found his
Z greatest difficulty Srom the impossibl!ty
\ Of boring with the imperfect tools then in
use eylind,r that was steam tight. Your
1 friend. Arthur Dswsen