The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-09-15
ANCIENT INVENTIONS.
Egyptians Made the Original Slot
Mac hines --KOrea'S
Metal type.


printing. At the same time it i:
generally believed that Britain first
used metal type. This is fallac,
that ought to be explained, for the
little land of Korea, that stretches
out into the Yellow Sea from the
body of China, was the first to dis.
Germ the need of the new permanent
and durable form of type.
Korea's pioneer font of metal type
was built on the paincipal of the
arch, each type being cylindrically
concave on the under side, so that il
could secure firm hold upon bed
of beeswax which comprised the
from.
When the printer firmly imbedded
his type in the beeswax, a fiat cake
lying in shallow tray, he applied
liquid ink by means Of a soft brust.
He then laid upon the form sheet
of paper, and rolled across it round
stick. In this way it was possible to
strike off nearly 200 impressions an
hour.
Automatic machines were first us
ed in Egypt. and in the old temples
of the East devices were employed
for automatically dispensing the
purifying water.
A small coin five drachmae) had
TO be dropped into the slot to set the
mechanism in motion and secure a
small quantity of water Heaon. of
Alexandria, who lived 200 years be-
fore the Christian era. had a machine
of this kind constructed for his own
personal use.
The "penny-in-the-slot' machine,
as we know it to-day, was invented
by Mr.. Percy Everitt, who died a
year or two ago at the Milwaukee
Hotel, New York. Since Everitt
placed his invention on. the market,
many thousands Of patents in con-
nection with slot machines have been
taken out in Great Britain and for
eign countries.
Who invented the sewing machine?
The americans say that Elias Howe
did. and now standing in the Patent
Museum of Washington, was the
first machine for sewing purposes
ever built.
As a matter Of fact. the father of
sewing machines was patented in
this country so far back as 1890 by
Thomae Saint, London cabinet
maker, who described his invention
as being designed for quilting,
stitching and sewing.
America claims the first fountain
pen, and the original model of this
useful contrivance is one of the
rights of the Patent Museum of
Washington. 1t consists of a mas
sive Brass cylinder at one end of
which is a stop-cock. A piston rod |
had to be placed into the cylinder,
after it had been filled with ink, to
make the writing fluid flow down to
the nib.
Lyman Blake and Gordon Mackay,
Two Massachusetts mechanics, put
together the first machine for sewing
che soles Of boots on to the upper.
When their patents expired in 1881
Eheir machines were sewing $4,000,
900 pairs of boots yearly.
The Americans hold the typewrit-
er trade, Notwithstanding that the
first typewriter was put together by
Henry Mill, an Englishman, in 1924.
Ii vas crude, but it fulfilled the pur-
pose for which it was designed.
The number Of Mills patent was
}95, and the records of the London
Patent Office show that his machine
had been brought to perfection at
grca, pains and expense"
The Marquis of Worchester. it is
generally believed, built the first
steam engine in 1867. This is "a
Fable for a Frenchmar named Solo
uu he Cans, engineer 70 Louis -.
applied steam TO work fixed engine
cal n century before the Marquis Of
Manchester ever thought Of using
team a. "a power at all
Though Cans made the pioneer
steam engine. ne was not the first
inventor to put steam O. q good use.
So far back as 1913 Don Blas,o de
iaray, "A Spaniarj. fitted up a poo
.1r steam vesse. and drove ner at 10