Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-06-09
FROM !. MANUAL TO POWER { o. y:
CREATIONS. 55 s@s ss.:

During the lifetime Of many VINO 'll
are i now living there has be-. been !.
changes, little less than wond erf 'l y
in applying the mighty agencies Of
machinery to the needs and comforts
y OF mankind. Isl 81 X. n n $;. y s.;E.
l In the harvest fields what an evo-
luton has taken place? The cradle,
!. that had been used fol; forty CEN !,
4 turtles, was first superseded 4 by the ne
< hand rake reaper, then the selfrake
took the place Of the mandrake, then
The harvester Il on which men rode O.
I and bound the grain by manual anu Ia 3!
!; Dor, then the selfbinder. And the
y changes in the manufacture Of but but
& ter have been quite as pronounced "a. as
iii the harvesting of grain. y The The
cream separator changed all the old old
! processes and more than doubled the
& value Of dairy products In this coun n
u try. II +, / Ss s Il, ,5. $@!
The following article from the Sci
entific American is well worth the
4 time it will take to read it: t
The Greatest Ten Years Of Inven-
r. sS:. NJ VI ton. - ~ 49, 4 (
Ss The most significant event in the
& annals of human achievement was
the invention of the steam engine.
It's introduction divided recorded
4 time into two distinctly defined eras.
and it may well be said that the en-
tire history of mans material en-
1. deavors counts forward or backward
W from that comparatively recent event
The jump from manual to power op-
II erations, which typifies the.two. eras,
b was nothing short Of cataclysmic,
and profoundly affected and stirred
mankind in all its relations to an
extent inconceivably greater than
any political change or decision In
y battle that is ordinarily cited by the
historian to mark the beginning OF
a new epoch. III e,M
AS soon after this event as distract
II ed civilization could be released
Il from the sitting bondage of inces-
4 SAINT warfare, the problem Of apply
ing this mighty agency to the needs
of man began in earnest-with' an
& energy, capacity, and genius never
ceasing and never before equaled
{ Thus was inaugurated the age Of
machinery, Of invention, of indus
4 trialism- an age vitality different
from all that preceded it and during
which the basis of society was more
4 completely altered and the. economic
and political structure more funda-
mentally reyolutionized than In all
the preceding centuries Of civiliza-
ton put together.
OF the ten decades which may be
roughly stated to cover this notable
period of development, not one has
failed to contribute its quota toward
the sum of great inventive achieve
ments. Each and every decade has
seen the origin of some transcendent
: act for the advancement Of material
7. civilization. .z-, < -sra -.
The ten years most fraught with
4 achievement up to the invention Of
the telephone, was the 184O-185O pc
Rod, during which the reaper, vul-
canization of rubber, sewing machine,
and telegraph were perfected. These
inventions, by far the most notable
of the decade, were all American
and marked the elimination of Yam
kee ingenuity, and it is safe to as
sert that no other people in any
equal short span of time can point
to 81 record of accomplishments so
marvellous and so revolutionizfng, In
dustrially and socially. -
The decade beginning with 1870
was also notable the telephone,
the dynamo, and the arc lamp ap-
peared and gave the first indications
1 Of the coming part electricity was to
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