The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-05-17
Progress i, Manufacturing

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lars ahead OF England, both in capitai
and In product And England Is a.
much ahead Of Germany as 1t IL behind
America. There has never been any
Official census of Industries In any
European country such as the United
states had every ten years up to 1900
ana every five years Since then. Yet
tne statistics have been closely gather
eu, AMI they show that the. National
manufacturers Association represents
as great an output OF commodities as
Is produced by any two other countries
AT no other time in history has the
nanuracturer ever been so progressive
- the American manufacturer OF TO-
Jay ~ took I'VE centuries to 20 from
the Spanish gaiieon to the Lusitania.
~ REQUIRED sixty years to develop the
siroad engine up to Its present
hced to evolve the AUTOMOBILE from
It's experimental stage up to a product
OF the highest usefulness and great
est emciency. And so 1t is in almost
every branch Of manufacture No one
century eyer gave; as much progress to
me ~oriq 'as the past twenty years
8 New Industries are being born SO ran
iaiy that the laynien can scarcely keep
track OF them. Who ever thought az
5wreckfng whole railroad train or
setting a house afire in order to get
picture decade ago? Yet the NOV
ing picture man came upon the scene
and those things became in order And
the knowing picture has In turn helped
to launch new Industry Not long
since there was a new glass factory set
up In the West. IT iced automatic
glass blowers. When II needed more
capital IL went into the financial dis
afn IN. ~~,f.f - IA F7L..
men were dubious They could NOT
understand how a machine could blow
glass. Then the glass makers be-
thought themselves to Use the moving
picture man to prove 1t. They did so<
and got their money without further
question. =, 5rsss1 q A
American. ingenuity can produce the
worlds mtghtiest electric engine. with
a horsepower far into the thousands.
and It can produce the smallest motor.
weighing only twenty-seven grains.
This motor was made by Texas mani
ufacturing jeweler. The aeld mag
nets are of the finest. steel. and so
small that theyfcan scarcely be seen,
The power is taken on by = brush Of
nearly the same Invisible dimensions.
and the finest silk covered wire Is used
IN winding the arnfature. The motor
Is driven by q tiny ssilyer chloride bait
terry The jeweler wears 81 as scarf
pin. and can. make the little thing
buzz as busily as the biggest motor
1t has been well that denatured al
cohol has come upon 'the scene as a
cheap fuel and motive power for
small establishments which have hith-
erto used oil. 1t is estimated that In
the past half century the oil fields of
North America have produced enough
petroleum to fill the entire Panama Ca
nal when completed But the Eastern
oil fields are expected to cease to flow
In important quantity within the next
decade. Denatured alcohol Dependent
not upon stored-up supply which can
never be added to. but upon mans
power to make it, Is one OF the exam
pies OF what the world may expect as
the great resources near extinction.
Concrete comes along as the substI-
tute for wood, and It is expected by
one school of economic thought that
no resource will ever become ex-
.hausted but that man will have q
working substitute for it.
The discovery OF saccharine, one of
the most important Of the coal tar
derivatives. shows how the scientist
may stumble upon something Of ines
Unable value to, the ,nappfacturer. A
,1shnss Hoplksts ehAnsst twas expert
'propertfes. more with view TO assigr-
Ing them high sounding names than
with the expectancy OF discovering
something which would devsioE into
a great Industrial asset. When ha
went home to dinner he found that the
bread had a remarkably sweet taste. (
His landlady declared she had not put
sugar into 1T. and the other boarders
did not discover anything wrong with
theirs. 1t was finally discovered that
the sweetness was on his hands He
FASTENED back to his laboratory and
examined everything he had there. rim
ally he located 1t, and the saccharfne
of commerce was the result It Is so
sweet that four pounds of IT will go
further than a ton OF cane or beet SUI
gar. One capner of corn was able 10
save $4,000 worth Of corn in single
season through the use of saccharine.
It requires only one-fourth of a grain
to sweeten a can of corn, and che re-
suit is that a man never eats more
than sixtieth of grain of 1t at one
time. It Is widely used in sweetening
chewing tobacco, and other things to
which II is necessary to impart a
lasting flavor of sweetness 1t is also
used as q substitute for sugar in the
treatment OF govt and kindred all
ynente -|s~~-i ~
Every day new things are being in
vented and manufactured. Thirty
years ago the nunalser % articles made
In the rnftea States was comparatively
sfnall. ana there wera. fewer manufac-
turere in the whole, country than there
are in a half dozen leading States to-
day. Now there are so, 900 different ar
ticles listed IN the manufacturers red
book. and they are made by co., 900
manufacturers. The flrst red book,
published Z In 1855, weighed three
ounces, The current volume weighs
thirteen pounds.
Copyright. 1909, by Frederic ]. Has
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