The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-11-10

minute but the United States
government was just as slow to
adopt a new military invention
IN 1861 as it is today and Cat
mig invention was thrown in
to the discard. But General
Benjamin F. Butler bought IL
OF them at his own expense and
the successful use of them in
1862 persuaded the government
to adopt the invention.
The Colt revolver had it's or
lgin on sailing vessel which
carried Samuel Colt, then IL
years old to Calcutta in 1926.
Colt was bored to evaporation
by the voyage. To which the
monotony he started whiting
In true Yankee fashion and fin
ally evolved the rough pattern
of a revolver.
Gun RccCmes Famous
When he got back to. the
States he followed up the idea.
He submitted it to the govern
ment 10 years later. The auth
critics at Washington laughed
at him until General Zachary
Taylor-like Butler in the Civ
il war-introduced thousand
OF the weapons for his cavalry
men, to be used in Mexico. Sue
cess followed and the Colt gun
became famous the world over.
Hotchkiss was riding in a
railroad train in 1875 when the
idea of the magazine rifle which
bears his name came in his
mind. Some years before he
had devised the murderous
Hotchkiss shells and revolving
cannon. But the masterpiece
he sketched in Is minutes on
the margin of the newspaper
he was carrying at the time.
The value of that rife was ap.
preciated almost Immediately,
for the governments of this
country, France and England
adopted the weapon.
Although strictly speaking
not an inventor, Winchester
had enough mechanical ability
to see possibilities in a volcanic
rifle which some Bay State
genius evolved. Winchester
founded the factory and capital
lied the invention until today
the Winchester rifle scarcely
needs all the advertising which
is given to it.
Perhaps the most versatile of
the quintet of American fire
arms inventors is Hiram Max
i'm who is not to be confused
with his brother, Hudson, an.
other genius in the inventing
of apparatus for the fine arr
of killing.
Hiram's inventioness was
given bump in the right direc,
ton when he was bowled owe,
by an old fashioned muzzle load.
ing rife. Like Newton, he prof,
tied by the blows and thought
out way to make use of the
force. The Maxim Nordenfelt
rarid firing gun which makes
the recoil serve as the power
for reloading followed from his
wonderful brain. He also in
vented the world famous cor
ldite, a powerful smokeless pow
der.
Long List of Inventors
These are but a few of thu
great names in the history Of
American military and naval in
ventions. ne could stretch thu
list indefinitely by adding the
names of Whitehead, the torpe
do designer; Ericsson, a natur
allied American, who invented
the monitor; Hudson Maxim,
an authority on explosives anC
inventor of many differen
kinds; Holland, the father o,
the submarine boats and many
others whose lives were spent
in bringing the art of war to {
high degree of perfection.
Then, by that strange irony
which seems to be revealed il
striking fashion during the wa
times, it can be proven thai
Americans have given to tn,
world the best protection
against the bullets and SHELL
of other Americans-the fines
armor plate that is made any