The Detroit times., 1910-11-22
AMERICAN INVENTIONS
By FREDERIC + HASKIN
MANUFACTURES

cent experiments In the use of the W
CUM principle have demonstrates
that In the future IL will be possibly
TO ship ice-cream and other perish
ables all over the world. without the
ever coming into contact with ice
either In preparation or shipment.
consignment of icc-cream was shippe
last year from Washington TO Seattl
and then back 10 Washington by wa
OF San Francisco and New Orlean
and when opened II was in as goo
condition as when II started.
The modern machinery for bottlin
waters and other liquids was perfec |
ed by American genius. One cal
scarcely travel far enough away frorI
the borders OF the United States n
get beyond the range Of the influence
OF the American. This is ILLUSTRATED
In the fact that on the banks OF thu
river Jordan there il bottling works|
equipped with American bottling md
chinery. engaged In bottling the wate|
of the river Jordan for pious peoplI
throughout the world. The great id
mand for bottles In the United State!
has led inventors to perfect a machinI
II is found that this machine Is on,
OF the greatest laborsavers ever do
vised. and that IL produces better AM
more uniform bottles than were mad
by the old-fashioned hand method
Even thermometer tubes are now fro
quently blown by machinery.
One OF the most striking cases G,
laborsaving as applied 10 America'
industry is that of mechanical shoe
making Under the old.fashioned COZ
bier method II required the shoemake,
two days TO produce pair OF shoes
Today that same pair OF shoes ma,
DO made in twenty minutes. Their
are sixty operatives and forty'fve ms,
chimes utilized in the process. In tn,
shoe-making world, as in many othe'
Industries, the patents have beei
made a temporary monopoly. TIL
machines are only leased, and a pot
ton OF the cost OF every shoe WI
wear Is made up of the royalty charH
ed by the holders of the patent righsI
The steam-driven sawmill Is I'M
product OF American genius for mai
ing the best use OF power. Withol1
the modern sawmill II would be I'M
possibIe to furnish the vast supp!ieI
OF manufactured lumber demanded bI
the country. The first steam sawml
was q queer little machine, with ca
nacity OF only a few thousand feet q
lumber a day. NNow the huge milf
turning out thousands OF feet OF lunl
her a year, find the sawdust alone 4
he worth more than the entire produq
OF the first sawmills.
II requires billions of boxes to carr
the berries and fruits OF the countr
to the urban consumer. III these ma
TO be manufactured by the old-tas1
toned hand process they would be s.
expensive as TO make their use Amos
nrohibitive. The same ingenuity tina
| has made il possible for an Americal
inventor TO produce n bit which vi
bore a square hole, has made 1t pos
f, sihle oevolye a machine which whei
I fed strips OF thin lumber. turns on
completed boxes. One girl and box
making machine will turn out 1900
berry baskets day, or 4,OOO grap'
/ baskets.
Every year witnesses the issuanc'
OF patents which so eliminate the IA
bor cost Of manufacture as To mater
ially reduce the cost of the output Q
the factories. The machinists uni
versally agree that there is still muc'
room for progress. They see In tn
electric furnace the greatest step fol
ward since the invention OF the bias
furnace and the converter, and DC
| lieve. with the late Pig Iron Kelly
that II will supplant them both an
that the resultant improvement II
iron and steel and their products, &c
gether with lowered cost VIII give I'M
| American factory ne" tease %
/ unrId snnrnmAcY.