Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-25
American Inventors Driven to Beat
Europe ......
BY HERBERT lCoREy.

~ champ rampant "A field Of gold, said ne
Because overlooking many things. our
politicians lecturers editorial writers were de-
caring nothing could again be like used TO BE-
They wept the good old days. fortune kept
knocking every mans elbow. Yet today is Better
than yesterday There more opportunities
than there have been. Columns might be
filled with the recital
There is the manganese incident cor example Man
way into the manufacture of dry
batteries for electric torches We had all the raw ma
terial it did make the stuff
We buying it from 80 40 cents pound of
the Germans. who loudly asserted they had the only
process. Then the came The Germans could not
deliver manganese manufacturers One manufac,
turer secured large contract to deliver pocket torches
the armies of the allies.
II must have manganese" said
Well, there you lie called his experts into
and them The experts found objections
The Germans patent process for thing.
American patent plan devised benefit of
foreigners An American only hold patent in
Germany by paying a regular annual over here
the German hold patent until the come home
if he beat in the courts those who infringe it.
The manufacturer went away from his experts in
passion
You make that manganese for me-" said he.
So they it. They now making better quality
for = a pound than used to pay 80 and 40
cents pound The threatened suit, it is
true. After Investigation however tney gave that
thought
Quartz glass is another of the All the
world buying quartz glass from Germany. 1t
could be had anywhere else Pretty nearly every
had have it.
Quartz glass, you understand is acid proof heat
proof and the only substitute for platinum Crucbles
and tubes and retort used in chemical laboratories
made from it. If quartz glass were to be had
the chemists would simply nave 20 out Of business.
That could not be permitted because they buster
today than they ever have been in our history SO
Americans began to make quartz glass. 1t the
easier because the sand from which glass made
is only be found in Nebraska. Americans,
contentedy shipping sand all over the world for
other people to turn into a finished product.
"Chumps rampant field of gold
Thermometers are modern necessity. Everything
is necessity. for that matter. But the world could
hardly get along without thermometers now The war
stopped the importing Of thermometers from Austria
this reason and that Austria had almost
monopoly of the manufacture of ters just
has of meerschaum pipes American glassmakers be-
receiving calls for thermometers ..... '
I'VE cannot make them" they saio, placidly.
you must make Them" said America.
So the glassmakers scutted abCut and found two
Austrians understood how to blow the thermometer
tubes. appears the is complicated
one The glassmakers put the under contract at
sum per day which spelled riches 10 the simple Aus'
seo them to teachis other men how to make
the tubes. ..... e.. .s-- - a..
zone of the himself, and died." said the
glassmaker who told the story. S'i ~ II
That left only one Austrian but ne turned out a
pupils. Now all the thermometers the United
States needs being turned mere. They might
have been made before But one seems have
thought it. No compete plate glass
factories Even Belgium the glass of the world
outdone by Pittsburg along lines. But it
have occurred make thermometers.
At one time though indeIble pencils
to go off the The indeDie in the pencil is
made combination of coal tar dye and peculiar
sort of binder clay Being forced it, the American
chemists were able produce dye which just
GOOD tut the clay was lacking Then some unknown
American with field of binder clay which
quite as good as old world article, and when ndeli
BILE pencils become a need they can be supplied We
could supplied them before IL we had worked at it,
The small cables by which some electro lghts are
trped off and on insulated by glass beads We lead
the world i'm electric appliances and In the of cleo
t;citv Put some genius in Austria had convinced
mid Ike those small head He
GOT away with it, He mad what amounted to
mopopolv Then smut him Off and automatically
ouickened processes of the American brain Being
driven it, some one thought and presto: the bead is
produced and is a better bead than the old one and
cheaper.
rest of the world-and better machnery-but we have
been buying the steel for the highest speeds of the
Lrunps in Germany. Being good easy men, pre-
ferred buying to thinking. The Krupps furnished the
ben-speed steel a a price that did not encourage
steel makers go into the business So the automo
bile and the high-speed tools and thelike
were all made of this German steel. When the
came Krupp mad more OF it 10 export, if condi
lions had permitted
AT one time ii looked as though our automobile
business would be seriously crippled" said manu-
facturer.
I'VE went on making automobiles, but the crank
M sts and bearings might not have continued to be all
80, r,iobt have SO the auto makers sent in
hurry call to steel men. The high-speed American
steel today is just good the krupp steel Because
the steel had to hurry they installed electrical
cesses for some years. but had bothered with
them Europe had. But then, Europe before the war,
was filed with hard thinkers. As side issue to the
automobile business, American magnetic is now being
made which is good the best German magnetic.
The German magnetos were good that the French
stripped cars and placed them on military
planes
The benefit this country will obtain from the war
uhicb may be a selfish but is also truthful way of
stating the case-is not confined to the profit to be
mo dc from tne goods. 1t has forced to
install new and improved which must
ysrlv remain installed when the ends. 1t is to be
assumed we will drop MANUFACTURING lines in which
svnerence proves compete with Europe under
normal conditions unless congress tanges the tariff
schedules as make their, Continuance impossible
When the began it seemed likely that the maufac
ture of Photographic films be discontinued. Then
some chemical genius found substitute for the item
once bought in Europe which was oetter than the
original making nitric acid from the air,
as the Austrians doing A sal|- made from wool
enters into the manufacture Of most beauty
The Germans had the monopoly Now 1t is being
made in a plants