The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-09
. CENTURY OF PROGRESS.
The Inventions and Discoveries of
the Last Hundred Years.
Greenyille Mountaineer.

ho'o"oithJ aiticlo upon n century OF
Progress in the United States" which
I would be profitable to transfer in its
to our columns, but on account
OF It's length this is impracticable. 1t
may be well, however, to collate some
the facts cited merely us an introduc.
ton to the Twentieth Century upon
we are now entered The writer
I'm no period Of human endeavor
has the work OF nan beer so built into
tangible and enduring things of a useful
quality as in the century Just about to
pass into history. In a few DAYS the cal.
endar of the Christian era will be adj
justed to a new figure; the greatest
cycle or the worlds progress will have
completed its round, and the wheel of
time will have started on a new revolu.
tion, In the evolution Of history the
thoughtful student is impressed by the
great change in methods and subjects
wrought by the nineteenth century. An
cient and medieval history dealt with
politics. and the greed of conquest
Modern history must leave these to q
subordinate place, and substitute for
them, as OF greater Importance, the
genius or invention, the elements and
agencies of industrial progress, and the
arts of peace" The great pioneer to the
progress along all lines has been inven-
ton, and he says "Thc nineteenth
century was to mark in this field q great
revolution speculative philosophy was
to be left to the dreamer; and the thought
OF man assumed a new and concrete
shape. \ . The railroad, the tclc-
graph, and the steam vessel annihilated
distances peoples touched elbows across
the seas, and the cOntagion Of thought
stimulated the fcrmcnt OF civil zation
until the whole world broke out into an
epidemic of industrial progress"
The catalogue OF inventions has been
grouped by decades, and in transcribing
we will only note the III st important.
In the first decade, (1S00.1S1O) Volta.
Of Italy, gave the world the chemi
cal battery which bears his name;
Louis Robert, OF Franco, devised a ma
chine for making cont inuous webs Of
paper, which was the forerunner Of the
web perfecting printing press; Trevi-
thick, an Englishman, built the first
steam locomotive, and his countryman,
Winsor, organized the first gas company.
In our WI land, John Stevens and Rob
ert Quito successfully established steam
navigation, and thereby laid the founda-
ton for the present great commerce and
splendid naval equipment of the world.
QSlO,2O.) konig's rotary steam press
marked a great advance in printing {;
Stephenson built his first locomotive ;
Fulton the first steam war vessel Niepcc
invented photography, the pioneer sep
in photography Sir Humphrey Davy in
vented the safety lamp electro. magnet
ism was discovered by Ocrstcd and the
American ship Savannah utilized
steam for the first time in crossing the
Atlantic.
QS2O.3O.) Faraday converted the cleo
trlcal current into mechanical motion
1 All hnTnl 10 No
Wright's machine the first public pas.
senger rail way was opened in England
between Stockton and Darlington
friction matches were introduced by
John Walker Stephcnson's locomotive,
Rocket" took the prize for speed the
the first practical locomotive was i'm.
ported and put to work in America
Daguerre invented the dagucI reotypc,
and Ericsson supplied the steam fire
engine.
} QS3O-40.) Prof. Henry tc' egraphcd
signals to a distant point by his electro.
magnet and invented his electric motor
Mccormick and Hussey invented and
put into service their respective reapers
Bald win built the "Old Ironsidcs, from
which time American locomotives began
to be recognized, until in number and
quality they now exec all others Prof
Morse gave to the world the telegraph
!, Colt invented his revolver Draper and
Morse made the first Photographic por.
traits, and Goodyear discovered he pro.
cess of vu~lcanizing rubber. Importan,
steps were taken abroad in chemical
and electrical forces Stcinheil discov
cred the feasibility OF utilizing the
earth for the return section OF the
electric current Defrics furnished the
gas meter; Talbert made Photographic
prints from negatives, and Prof. Grove
made the first incandcsccnt electric
lamp.
(1S40 50.) Sickel's steam cutoff and
Nasmyth's steam hammer were invented;
the first Geographic message from Wash.
ington to Baltimore the introduction of
anssthetics the Hoe type revolving ma.
chine Houses printing telegraph gun.
cotton and nitroglycerine Howe 8 sew
ing machine; Savages time-lock the
Corliss engine the first submarine cable
(Dover to Calais); Sloan's gimlet pointed
screw; Ahciican machine made matches
1850 CO., Pages electric locomotive
Maynard's breech.loading rife Smith Il
Wesson, Spencer and Henry firearms
the fire alarm telegraph processes for
making paper pulp from wood; Besse.
mer's process OF making steel the dyna.
mo electric machine Ericsson's hot air
engine; Woodruf's sleeping car the
nrst Atlantic cable; Perkins aniline
dyes the underground cable gar system;
the discovery Of coal oil in the United
States !; the first use Of the electric light
in a dwelling launching Of the Great
Eastern )" the improved speetroscope F;
the storage battery; the crude telephones;
the steam injector the ammonia ABSORB
ton ice machine.
CISCO 70.) The inventions Of this De.
Rod reflected to some extent the strife
or battle in the war between the States.
The revolving turret. Ericsson's iron.
clad Monitor" the Calling gun, the
the white %gunpowdor and dynamite, the
Whitehead torpedo, MoncricR's disap.
pearing gun carriage, and the rebound
ing gun lock. The Mckay shoe.sewing
machine revOlutioniZed tho shoe indus.
try; Green invented the drive well Otis
the passenger elevator; tho arst barbed
wire fence appeared, and rubber dental
plates were introduced. OIeomargarine
was produced, the Suez canal opened,
the Pacific railway was completed, West
lnghouse air brakes were devised, and
he Mont Gents tunnel was practically
completed.
(1970.80.) The Hoe web perfecting
press was developed, and a great array
or valuable inventions followed, only q
Few OF which can be mentioned. The
Locke grain binder the Ingersoll rock
drill Janney's automatic car coupler
Edison's quadruplex telegraph Cor.
hams Irvine hinder for bnruaotare