Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-08-23

mas ISuuCSu by nail the apprOp1 Ia
ton to pay rent for the patent Of
flee, the question as to what dis
position will be, or should be,
made of models is still an open
one. 1t will be remembered, on
the one hand, that this collection
of models is not a complete exhib-
it of all the patents granted. All
models prior to 1896 were burned,
and only a few have been restored. 1
In the patent office fire of 1877
some SO, 600 additional models were
burned, leaving about 157, 900 mod
els. On the other hand, the models
remaining and now on exhibition
in the Union building represent
some Of the most important epochs
of progress which have marked the
growth of modern civilization, and
it is the only exhibit of the kind
in existence.
Here are to be found the sewing
machines of Howe, Wilson, Sing
er, Grover & Baker, Wilcox &
Gibbs, and others. The Howe
machine in 1916 for the first time
placed the eye of the needle in the
point instead of the heel, and this,
with the four motion feed of Will
son, gave the first practical sue
cess of sewing by machinery. Here
also are Morse's telegraph patents,
1832-1840; the Bell telephone pat
ented in 1876, the Edison phono-
graph patented in 1878, Edison's
electric lamp patented in 1880, the
House printing telegraph of 1876,
the Balm chemical telegraph of 1949,
DR.. Pages electromagnetic engine
patented in 1854 and his induction
coil of 1868, Charming & Farmer s
fire-alarm telegraph of 1857, Eli
Whiteny's cotton gin of 1894, the
Blanchard 1athetof 1920, Thurber S
typewriter of 1843 and many others.
In printing, the array and perfec-
ton of the models in presses and
allied arts is particularly fine, the
work of Hoe, Bullock, Gordon and
others being presented in beautiful
and operative models. In looms and
the textile art generally, there are
also illustrative models of perfect
workmanship. So also in locomo-
tives, cash registers, knitting ma
chimes, machines for making need
les, nails and horseshoes, and many
other complex machines. The time
lock of Savage of 1847, the arc
lamp of Collier & Baker of 1853, the
electromagnetic engine of Stimson
in 1888, and the old electric motors
of Davenport, Neff, Edison, and
others are all here.
Many curious and historic inven-
tions are to be found in the colIec-
iton. Abraham Llncoln's Means for
Lifting Vessels over Shoals was
patented May d, 1s4e, and is rep
resented by good model; Sonnen-
berg & Richter in 1882 patented an
electric device for killing whales
Edison on June /, 1869, took out
his first patent, which was for an
photographic voting machine.
Prominent in the exhibit of mod
els are several thousands grouped
together in separate cases, being the
inventions of women. One woulc
any suppose lllcN Nl1CoC Will
lie in the sphere of woman s
work, and many of them do. Sally
Rosenthal1 invented pocket sew.
ing machine, which she could take
along with her when visiting,
and thus improve each shining
hour with both work and gossip
Mary Carpenter invented a machine
tor sewing straw hats, and is re-
puted to have made much money
out of it. Margaret Knight invent
ed a feeding machine for making
paper bags, and is credited will
considerable profit therefrom. Fran
ces Durham was the inventor of
machine for making honeycomb
shrewdly recognizing the assistance
this would render the bees. No
all the women, however, have
confined themselves to lines o
feminine thought. Mary Mont
gomery, with the memory of the
civil Awar fresh before her, invent
ed in 1864 a very mechanical
double-hu1l construction of war YES
sci, and Sarah Mather in 1s45 de
vised submarine telescope, Will,
Mary Woodward in 1s49, probabl,
with an eye to the comfort of
bald-headed spouse, invented a fan
to be attached to the rocker, so a
to keep off the flies as well as fal
the occupant.
Prosaic as is the work of me
chanical evolution, many curiou
and amusing lines of thought crol