The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-10-31
HAVE INVENTIVE GENIUS.
Women's Mechanical Devices Do Not
All Apply to Home Work.

AL apply " 41OAtC WIN.
When Lord Roberts left England for
South Africa several years ago he re-
ceived curious present in the shape of a
| bullet-pcoof shield of aluminium This
was stnt to him by its inventor, wo-
man. She who pa tented this very much the
reverse of domestic implement is Miss
| Helen S. Murphy. one of the few women
inventors. Her Invention is so far sac
cess that it attracted the attention of a
| foreign government, which has lately
been aking inquiries as to the supply OF
a large quantity of these soldiers chest
protectors Or its entire army.
As might be expected, the larger num-
Der of patents taken out by women are
for domestic inventions of one kind or
| another. Some. however like Miss Muir
ply. have turned their attention to very
different subjects.
Mrs. Westham has recently patented
a new kind of solder for use by metal
workers. A woman from Blackpool has
devised novel tent, which Is said to be
very light and easily folded and carried
Metal working Is not the sort of occu-
women. Mrs. Florence Harrison has
shown that the fair sex can excel in
such branch OF industry by .patenting
a process for Aesulphurizing certain ores.
Mrs. AmeS Lynde is another well-known
instance Of 4 woman :ronworker. At her
extensive works al Thornham. in Nor
folk, were MAIDS The beautiful drive
gates Of Sandringham, and the king has
FOR years taken the keenest interest in
her work Mrs. Ames Lynde not only
superintends the work which she has
started, but prepares all the designs her
self She has invented many new and
unique designs as well as several methods
for welding together the separate portions
which go to form the elaborate pieces of
work turned out at her works So far
has the fame of this novel village indus
try extended that it's head received an
order for the royal pavilion at the Paris
exhibition of 1900.
Lady Colebrooke is another woman in
yentor She is we'll known AS a sculptor
and has turned her attention TO a branch
of work hitherto aim Jst exclusively con-
fined to men-that of carpentering She
holds every week large class of women
and girls from the district around her
home at Arlington and teaches them nee
dlework and carpentering. The latest
achievement is a pillar box on a new
plan, which is in use in the hall at Abb
ington.
Doctors now ldays are all agreed that
the ordinary cradle with rockers is very
bad for children. The rocking and jolt
ing quiet crying baby merely by stupe-
flying IL and the result IS INJURY TO tine
chiId's health.
A woman living at Twickenham has set
herself to work to remedy this and at the
patent office may be found a description
of her new baby car hammock: rms Is
a combination between a cradle and a
perambulator which taxes up very little
room, ohviates all Earring and Jolting ana
at the same time Is so made that the
child lying on ii is completely pfotected
from cold air and drafts.
Another domestic device which certainly
fills a long-felt want and for which we
are Indebted to a woman is called the
baby jumper. Judging by the drawings
of this device the Mrs. Wilson who pa
tented it has conferred an enormous boon
on mothers who cannot afford nurses.
The invention is sort of frame in which
the child can be comfortably placed,
either sitting or standing and fixed beyond
reach of harm with straps. II is sus-
pended TO the ceiling by a rope and spiral