Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-03

Dr. Alexander Graham Bell turned a screw quarter of a single revolu- tion and the patent that formed the basis of the Bell telephone was grant td. There had been patents previous ly that sought to establish the tele phone. The Rice patent had ccme nearest to success. But in the Rice patent the current was intermittent. It had to leap gap. When Dr. Bell turned his screw he competed the cur rent and made it constant. This placed the fundamental proposition on a different basis and his patent was granted. It resulted in revoln- tionizing the method of transmitting messages, and has vitally effected the affairs of every man in the nation who does business. Incidentally it has re. suited in the making of some hundreds of millions of dollars directly and in directly.
 George B. Selden is the inventor os the Selden clutch, which controls the automobile business of the nation. It is this clutch that enables the oper. ator of an automobile to stop his ma. chine in a jam at Q crossing and start |. is interposed between the running gear and the motor and performs this valuable service. An automobile with. out it would consequently have no place on the market
 Yet this clutch had no value at the time of it's invention. For a decade it lay in the patent office uDusued. Then the automobile business developed and an application of the idea was found and the patent applied. The millions that are back of this control of the automobile business are hard to estimate It is unlikely that the holders of it will ever become the wards of the municipalities in which they chance to reside.
 Inventor of the Sewing Machine.
 Elias Howe is the man who grasped the vital point in the development of the sewing machine which means so much to the housewife as well as the manufacturer. This small point was the idea of placing the hole near the point of the needle. It is a very small thing Everybody is familiar with it. Yet our wives and mothers woud probably still be slaves to finger needlework but for it.
 But there was patent granted a little while later that was a cleverer idea on the part of the patentee than was this hole in the needle, which was improved upon and wrested to a certain extent. from the control Of the clever Mir. Howe. This inventor made a machine that made a stitcn that was vastly more effective than any that had gone before. Instead oi ! patenting the machine, which might have been subject to change and in- l fringement, he patented the stitch it made
 Thaddeus Fairbanks was something | of a farmer and encountered more or ! less difficulty in marketing his pro ! duce because Of the cratic nature of 1 the stillyards upon which it had tC | be weighed. He lay awake at nights i in an endeayor to evolve a better ! scale. His scheme was to make a ! scale with a platform. but the difficult | ty was that the position of the bur den on this platform always interfered with the recorded weights. His prob. ] lem was b evolve series of levers so ' arranged that the correct weight would be recorded regardless of the position of the load on the scales. The solution, the arrangement oi i the levers. came to him in the dead of night. while he lay meditativeiy In bed. Next day he worked it out, and soon the platform scale was on the market Fairbanks scales have since gone around the world, and have even the Fairbanks cocktail beaten in their hold on the public mind. The Fair ! banks family has waxed immensely wealthy. Sons and grandsons. cousins and nephews, are owners of country
 homes and private yachts. All owe their wealth to the fact that old Thad deus lay on his back and thought ol levers one dark night, a generation ago. up ip St. Johnsbury. Vermont.
 Typewriter Patent Lay Dormant.
 The patents for a typewriter lay dormant for half a century in France before it ever came into general use Then a man by the name of Shole, made a machine in this country and called it Remington" Another man by the name Of Brown made a differ ent kind of typewriter and called Il the Smith" The makers immortal ized other men through their handi work. They made millions. bui whether these were for themselves or other men is not stipulated in tho record. A Briton by the name of Pin
 GUS invented an electric railway