New-York tribune., 1901-01-06
w. FLETCHER JOHNSON

point by his electro-magnet. and invented his
electric motor; Mccormick and Hussey invented
and put In service their respective reapers;
Baldwin built the 'Old Ironsdes' and from
this time on American locomotives began to
assert their claims 20 recognition, until to-day
in numbers and quality they excel all others
Professor Morse gave the world the telegraph
Colt invented his revolver; Saxton devised mag
neto-electric machines; the link motion was in
vented by James; Davenport made his electric
motor; Professors Draper and Morse made the
first Photographic portraits and Goodyear dis
covered the process of vulcanizing rubber. :.
Ten years more completed the first half or
the century and this decade QS40-'JW brought
Sickers steam cutoff, Triggers pneumatic cals-
sons Nasmyth's steam hammer, the first tele-
graphic message from Washington to Baltimore
the introduction OF anRsthetics by Dr. Wells and
by DIR. Morton. the Hoe type revolving machine
Houses printing telegraph. guncOtton and nitro
glycerine. HOwe'S sewing machlne SaVages time
lock- Bain's chemical telegraph, Bakewelrs fac
smie telegraph. BOurdOn's pressure gauges
Brewster's stereOscOpe the COrliss engine the
first submarine cable dover to Calais. the col
lodon process in photography, Sloans gimlet
pointed screw and American machine made
watches
RUSH OF GREAT INVENTIONS.
In the next decade dS50-6O we find Dr.
Pages electric locomotive. the Ruhmkorf COLL
Hclmholtz's cphthalmcscope. Maynards breech-
loading rifle. the Smith * Wesson. the Spencer
and the Henry magazine firearms; the Charming
& Farmer fire alarm telegraph GintIs duplex
telegraph, the Watt & Burgess and the Noelter
processes for making paper pulp from Woou,
Wilson's four motion feed for sewing machines
Bessemers process OF making steel riJoi 10, tli m .
dynamo electric machine, Ericsson's hot air en-
gine, the Mchaux bicycle. Hughess $
printing telegraph Woodrufs sleeping car
PerkinS's aniline dyes. SiemenSS reSeheratiNe
furnace iron floor beams I'm building construction
Phelps printing telegraph, first Atlantic cable
Giffard steam injector Gardner's underground
cable car SYSTEM the discovery of coal oil in the
United States, the first of the electric hght
in a dwelling. by Farmer; launching of the
Great Eastern, Osborne's process of photO-lith-
ography. the improved spectroscope ana the
kirchhoff and Bunsen system OF spectrum an
alysis. Plantes storage battery Reiss crude
telephone, and Cares ammonia absorption Ice
machine.
The following period Os6O-'7W included the
civil war. but even this terrible calamity eoula
not arrest the momentum of inventive progress.
AS might be supposed the inventions of this
period reflected to extent the strife of bat
tle and we find here the introduction of Timbys S
revolving turret Ericsson's ironclad Monitor,
the Gatiing gun. the white gunpowder or Schultz
and of Dittmar. dynamite. Nobefs explosive gel
atine the Whitehead torpedo, Moncriens disap-
pearing gun carriage. and the reboundng gun
lock. The Mckay shoe-sewing machine revolu-
tionized the shoe industry. Colonel Green IN
vented the drive we'll Otis introduced his pas
senger elevator. the first barbed wire fence APP
peared. and rubber dental plates were intro intro
duced . . Wilde Siemens and Grainme
brought out their several dynamo electric ma
chimes Burleigh invented his compressed ar
rock drills. and Tilghman his sulphite process
for making wood pulp paper Oleomargarlne
produced, the Suez Canal opened. the IA
ciic Railway completed. the first Westlng-
house air brakes were devised the Wfndhausen
refrigerating machines were brought out, and
the Mont Cents tunnel was practically COM
pleted.
TRIBUNE'S FIRST HOE PRESS.
The next decade 0S1o-'S0) included the peri
DDS of the great financial panic i'm the United
States and the critical political strife incident 70
the contested Presidential election. This retard-
ed 10 some extent the growth of patents in num-