The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-21
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suppose the statue of Goodyear
stands prominently among the great
cures of the Worlds Fair, not be-
cause hardening India rubber is by
any means the greatest of the great
Inventors of hundred years, but
i because Goodyear in making it ran
Sthe whole course of the experiences
Which belong to adventurers in the
new Worl d =, Z, the world of invention,
which is SO constantly changing that
the great explorers of one century
are hardly more than names, if
they are even names, to the next.
~ Since the statue of Goodyear was
modelled a telegram from San Fran
cisco announces that the inventor of
5tsbarbed wire died there in the city
poorhouse. Goodyear had a narrow
escape from that fate, and Breguet
4 the elder had his first establishment
destroyed by the hurri-
cane. which forced him to fly from
France
Certainly his name and that of
Goodyear deserve to be kept in lasting
remembrance along with those of
Baldwin and Robert Hoe at Worlds
Fairs and in the books of illustrfous
mechanics, to Rewritten hereafter by
the successors of the admirable Fou-
I caud, whose most admirable book of
8 i1lustrious mechanics is so long out
Of print that it might be republished
Ito great advantage as a handbook of
the machinery of the Worlds Fair
with supplement for the ninteenth
century.
q vc q a 1rnirah1o Foil
caud, Claude Chappe invented the tel
egraph. Many individ-
yfduals once obscure have become rich
by taking advantage of the announce
ments of the telegraph. Gratitude
should induce them to erect monu-
ment to the memory Of Claude
sChappe. Claude Chappe's telegraph,
the successful wireless telegraph, in
suse in 1904, consisted "of beam
which turned on post, having a NOV
able arm at each of its extremities,
+ and when these movable arms were
turned each movement afforded a
separate signal which might represent
"a letter of the alphabet, or any other
Specification which should be agreed
upon BY the aid of only forty-four
of these telegraphs, properly equipped
with telescopes, news was received in
Paris from Strasburg in six minutes
and a hall, several years before the
signing of the Louisiana Purchase
treaty. ct the statue to Claude
ssChappe belongs still to the future, in
which the monument to Solomon da
Caus as the pioneer of the age of
steam will be erected.
TaJrI-n,+- rho u-rirer Of
number of letters as charming still
power in the politics of the time of
Richelieu and Louis KILL, when no
polite person in France thought OF
complaining of her morals. If these
: had been of the best, perhaps Cinq-
5Mars,yEwhen he was plotting to over
throw Richi1ieu, would not have Deen
one other correspondents. AS he was.
3 however,5s she wrote him full account
of her visit to.tne madhouse of Bice-
tire, where She discovered the discov-
erer the age of steam, stretching
I his hands through the bars and inform
ingal1 visitors that he was not really.
crazy, but was the inventor of a new
plan for moving the world.
3$.s But for this chance visit, we might
never have heard of Solomon de Caus
at all. while you are forgetting me
at AIarbonne,' writes Mile. Delorme
Ito: Cling Mars, absorbed as you are in
the pleasures of the court and oppos-
ing NJ. lie Cardinal, l.. according to your
expressed wishes, L am doing the hon
ors of Paris to your English lord, the
marquis of Worcester. 1 am taking
s him about, from one curiosity to an
other. Choosing always the sad and
serious, he speaks but few words, lis
3 tening with great attention and fixing
: his large blue eyes upon every one he
asks question as if he could see
into the depths OF their souls. He is
never satisfied with the explanations
he receives, and does not look upon
things exactly as they are shown to
him. For instance. when we visited
L the Bicetre, he pretended to see
marks of great interest in a crazy man,
whom, if he We're not raving, am sure
your Englishman would have taken
to London, if possible, and listened TO
his nonsense from morning until night.
As we crossed the yard filed with