Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-04
GERMAN q GENIUS LARGELY
! IMAGINARY QUALITY
World Yet to Hear OF Mighty Teu-
tonic Invention, Discovery or
w Scientific Achievement.
NATION OF FALSE ADVERTISERS
History Quoted to Reveal That Great
$sr'TeachcrS, Scientists, DISCOVERIES,
Statesmen or Preachers Were Not
n MADE in Germany"

During the last few months l have
heard the Germans arraiGned as ba-
setant, boorish. barbarous. yet in nearly
every ease the speakers suffiNed TO
their invectiveS such an expression as
"lut when 1t comes to brains you will
have to- hand 1t to them; they have
Wede science"
sFf What. hand 1t TO them? What epoch
making invention or discovery is OF
-IGermane' origin--cXccpt stamp on
which is-inscrihcd. Made in Germany"
Their scientists have kicked UP a fair
aamountlof spray as they, gamboled in
their pool, but the world has yet to
hear ora mighty Teutonic splash. Time
And again French English. American.
Spanish and Italian inventors and dis
&coperers have sent tidal waves around
the globe. Let us now be specific
H. The steam engine has been called the
greatest of all Inventions; it broke the
shackles from slaves; it mingled the
parts OF the world. 1t made neighbors
of the, antipodes. Newcomer. a native
OF Devonshire. obtained the patent for
the fret, partially successful steam en-
zine; Watt. n Scotchman, perfected it;
sCuynot,. Murdoch. and Trevtick
brought, forward the locomotive. not on
German soil: stephenson, an English
f man, was the first to apply the loco
motive steam engine to railways for
passenger traffic; France. England. and
ss America applied II to navigation. When
All had been completed Germany pulled
the whistle cord. shouted "IIoch der
Kaiser" and tagged it Made in Ger
& many
Germans Never Invented These.
The telegraph which brings us the
daily history Of the world was invented
+ by an American, Professor Morse. who
also suggested the Atlantic cable
which was subsequently, laid by that
American NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Cyrus
Field. assisted in "moorng the New
World alongside OF the Old" by Lord
Kelvin. the prince OF physicists. a
British subject. Graham Bell, the chief
inventor OF the telephone. was born in
Scotland and grew to fame in America
A young Italian. Marconi gave wire
less biography to the world The
House OF Hohenzollern has made great
use of these inventions in telling Great
Britain. America and Italy in arrogant
Nerbiage what the Vatcrland has done
for the henighted peoples of the earth
Cyrus Mccormick. native of West
virginia. produced the reaping mn
chine which harvests the food of the
world; Meikle. of England. brought
Z
anime banishcd. Eli Whi,uey OF
| massachusetts, parcntRgc, invented the
.J-'tton gin: Hargraves, an Euglishman.
made the spinning Jenny; ArkwriEht,
also English supplied its efficiency
with his f"mous spinning frame; the
EnElishman Kay introduced the fly
shuttle in weaving; Brunei, who de-
riscd the limiting machine. and Cart
wright, Inv entor of the power loom.
were British citizens. Thus was the
world clothed
Although Germany Is militaristlc and
worshps at the shrine of Mars what
votive offering has she made to the
god OF war? 1t was not she who con-
tributed gnncotton gun powder, smoke
less powder percussion cap nitro
Eiycerin, dynamite. torpedo, shrapnel,
automatic cannon, magazine rife,
ech-loading gun. Calling gun. re-
volver Maxim silcncer hammerless
gun. gunboat. ironclad battery or ship,
armor plate. revolving turrct. subma-
rine or airplanes.
No German Mnde Fhenc
Since Germany borrowed her military
- appliances from otheI nations. we are
not surprised that she tr)sained her de-
vices Of prosperity from the same
source. She did not produce the first
aniline dye, vulcanized rubber. liauid
gases, gas engine. water-gas. Their
mometer, barometer. pianoforte. barbed
wire, cut nails. plate glass. circular
saw. cable car. electric car sleeping
car, air brake. bicycle automobile
pneumatic tire. sewing machine. TYNE
writer, calculating machine. cash reg
lister, steel writing pen, ct cetera ad
inhnitum.
The greatest thing Germany has
done is to falsely advertise herself as
the light OF the world. No son of hers
invented the electric light the gas
light, the acetylene light the Kerosene
light, the searchlisht, the nashliEht,
the safety lamp. the candle dip or tho
friction match. America. France. Eng
land and other "untutored nations" pcr-
formed these tasks. The sun. moon and
stars are the only lights left for Ger
manys contention. and, according TO
the Mosaic account the Lord, and not
the Kaiser, made and placed them In
the armament
Daguerre, Frcnchman. presented us
with Photography. Our own Edison
brought forth the motion picture To
delight and instruct the eye and the
photograph TO please ana teach IN.
ear. The Germans enjoy our reels and
records. and. lifting high their stems
drink prolonged toast TO the achieve
ments Of the Vaterland. "Dcu,schland
Uber Allies"
Calico. who first saw the heavens
with telescope. was an Italian. Th,
men who first saw the earth and IFS
te.ming life with a microscope were
not of German origin. Yet many telc-
scopes and microscopes In our colleges
being marked Made in Germany" have
led students to believe that these won
derful instruments were devised nv
German brain. The Germans are me
chanics, not inventors.
These Weren't Teutons.
BY the use of the compound micro.
scope PaBteur. the French biologist AS