The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-06-20
PLENTY OF CHANCES.
Possibilities for Inventors Are Now
as Numerous as Ever.
Substitutes for Many Materials Used
in the Industries Now in Demand
on Account of Growing
Scarcity,

In the utilization of waste products
in making cheap substitutes for eX-
pensive materials, there is an attract
i've field for the inventor. Rubber, for
example, is growing dearer every year.
Some success has been had lately in
making a rubber-like articles, from
other plants, but a fortune is waiting
for the man who will bring forward
real substitute. Paper is cheap" you
may hear newspaper editor say to
the young reporters who crowd too
many lines on a page, but the owner
of the publication does not think so.
when he has to spend a million dollars
or more in year for white paper
Wood-pulp paper is growing more ex-
pensive; the man who makes paper
out of some other fiber, at less cost,
will not need to worry about his finan-
cial future. company is being formed
to make paper from the waste hulls of
the cotton seed; nearly every other
part of the plant is now utilized. Paw
ing materials are far from perfect.
Asphalt is very expensive, and there
are many objections to it. What is
| wanted is a material that will have all
the permanency of asphalt, all the
silence of the wood pavements of Lon
don, and all the holding qualities of
the country macadami~ed road--a
pavement that will be firm, but soft;
that will be smooth, but not slippery;
that will last and yet can be easily re-
| moved; and that, above all else, will
be clean. To be a cheap pavement, it
ought to be made from some waste
material. A fire-proof substitute for
wood, made from VASE material, will
pay its inventor we'll Manufacturers
are all searching for new materials.
| and for new and cheaper processes of
Woodworking. Reduce, by dollar a
ton, the cost of making steel, and you
can add enormously to the net earn
| ings of the United States Steel cor
| poratiOn, which has funds ready to re-
ward the successful inventor. Flex-
ible glass is not impossible Think
what it would be worth to the trades!
Mine owners often leave neglected
great mountains of metal because they
cannot extract the ore profitably, says
| Franklin j. Forbes, in Success.
The invention of all kinds of labor
saving machinery is occupying the at
tention of inventors all over the world.
American inventors set the pace for
| the world in this field, and that Is why
we are able to undersell foreigners in
the markets of all nations American
manufacturers will pay literally for
tools and machines that will reduce
the cost of production. Go into any
factory, and you will see work being
| done by hand that could be done by
machinery, and work being done by
machinery that ought to be done more
rapidly and at less cost In the devel=
opment of power, its transmission,
and its transformation into heat, light
and electricity, there is an unbounded
| field of work for the greatest inventive
minds. We want cheaper power; we
want to catch some of the nine -tenths
of the energy we lose in burning coal
We want new fuels. We want more
economically operated motors for sta
| tionary work, and also for fast locomo-
| ton of land and sea.