New-York tribune., 1901-01-06
MACHINERY.
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thought Of the inventor, to have affected it's
quality. The Hoe web perfecting press was de-
Teloped, and put TO work In the Office Of The
New-York Tribune. A great array of valuable
inventions followed, among which may be men
toned the Locke grain binder. the Ingersoll rock
drill Stearns's duplex telegraph, Westinghouse
improved automatic air brake, Lyalls positive
motion loom. Janney's automatic car coupler,
Edison's Quadrupleg telegraph, Gorham's twine
binder for harVesters, loves process OF making
Illuminating gas from water, the roller mill and
middlings purifier for making -four, Pictet's ice
machine, cash carriers for stores, Professor
Bells wonderful speaking telephone. cigarette
machinery, Edson's electric pen, steam feed for
sawmiu Carriages. Eallidie's cable cars Edison's
monograph the Otto gas engine Jablochkoff's
electric candle, SaVyer-AIa electric lamp Ber-
liners telephone transmitter Of variable resist
ance, EdisOn's carbon microphOne, liquefactiOn
Of oxygen, nitrogen and air by Pictet and caille-
tet, the development of the Remington type
writer. Edison's electric lamp with carbon hla-
ment gelatino- bromide emulsions in photog-
Taphy. the Birkenhead and Rabbeth spinning
spindles and the Gessner cloth presses. Siemens
also installed the first electrical railway at Ber-
lin and the Mississippi jetties were built by Cap
tain Eads The Lee magazine rifle, faures
storage battery and Greener's hammerless gun
were other inventions Of this period
MACHINES TO SET TYPE.
IN the next decade dsso-'9o) the radical in
ventions Of the preceding periods had got wen
into the commercial activities Of the National
life, and this decade represents the greatest
epoch OF prosperity the Republic has ever en-
Soyed II added the following important IN
Ventions Telegraphing by induction, the Blake
telephone transmitter, the Reece buttonhole ma
chine, Mergenthalers linotype machine, Co"les
electrical process Of making aluminium tne
Welsbach gas burner. the graphophone, electric
welding by Elihu Thomson, the Macarthur ana
Forrest cyanide process OF obtaining soIu,
Tesla's system Of polyphase currents, Harveys
process of annealing armor plate DE LaVaIs
rotary steam turbine, the Kodak camera, Oe
chardonnet's process OF making artiflclai SILK
nickel steel, Halls process Of making alunihull'
the Dudley dynamite gun and the hras roa, oIsen,
edcrc 1 a1rav f was installed between Baltimore
and Hampden. Flood Rock, in New-York har-
Dor blown up, the Brooklyn Bridge Was
built the elecfrocution Of criminals was ordefeu
in New-York State, the Lick telescope was
erected and in Europe the 81. Gothard Tunnel
and the Great Forth Bridge were completed anu
The last decade Of the century ds9o-1Sco) is
still so near TO u.s. and Is filled with invented
agencies of Importance, that selection is rem
cered specially difficult, and only few OF tfe
most important may be named We ma ths
Parsons rotary steam turbine. whlcn IN lls ~
p.icatOns Ga marine engines has raised tile
speed of smaller steam craft TO that OF an eA-
press locomotive; the Northrup loom. which acts
almost with the discretion of a thinking nlnd'
tne Acheson process or rnahlng carpor rui"ar; ID
The Eerkes telescope, Edison's kinetoscoDe, anu
ne allied Developments OF the pnantascoPe, 1oe .
rnematOgraph. and biograph whose moving
and apparently living scenes I'LL the observer
With wonder and admiration; the production or
calcium carbide by Wilson. and the electric
furnace for making the same; the discovery
and application Of the rays by Rontgen, the
krupp armor plate the developments in liquid
air and apparatus for producing 1T by linde
lrlller, DeWaF, Ostergren Berger ana olheiss
the mercerizing of cloth under tension TO render
" silky, the Schnck system OF balancing marine
Engines, the improved disappearing gun, the
PRACTICAL development of the bicycle ana auto
mobile the building and launching OF the
oesanlc, the largest steam vessel ever procucen
mo wireless telegraphy by Marcch.
SPINNING; WHEELS ADVOCATED.
These represent the most notable agencies
which have stimulated the industrial progress
I" the nineteenth century. Conceived in the pro-