The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-06-07
AMERICAN BRAINS
Have Been the Source Of Many Valu.
able Assistants 10 Human Effort.
Their Products the Best Of the Kind
in the World

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Will Mothef Necessity at this crisis
rap at the door Of Yankee genius IN
vain
Or will America do what Europe ex'
poets and produce some world-beatine
i, invention to cutwit Germany?
Unless the records kept by the
United States Patent Office are al
fault---a thing ] do not believe-Am-
orleans in the last half century have
produced ten notable inventions for
every single one created by German
OF notable German inventions since
the war of 1870 the Patent Office lists
but three-artificial dyes, the gas en-
CINE and an oil motor.
In that same period Americans have
revoutionized many industries and
changed the whole mode of ordinary
living by thirty great inventions.
In the year of our centennial, Alex
ander Graham Bell gave to the world
the telephone.
Two years later Sholes came for
ward with an almost equally amazing
machine, the typewriter.
George Westinghouse changed the
entire scheme of railroad travel with
his airbrake TIE year before Won
Moltke's Prussians swept to Paris.
Brush gave US the electric lamp and
Thomson the electric welder decade
later
Mention the name of Edison and the
whole worll takes off its hat to him
and his incandescent light, phono-
graph and motion-picture machine.
Harveyized Steel
The first man to battle big guns
with an extra hardened steel armor
upon ships was Harvey, and that was
only rs years ago.
Goodyear's shoemaking machine
changed the entire footwear industry.
America gave birth to the trolley
car, typesetting machine, rotary disk
pillow, automatic car coupler, automatic
block signal for railroads, and the
cash register.
The three great new forces so far
used in this war are wireless teleg-
raphy, the submarine and the air
plane. The first belongs to Marconi
of Italy, but America can justly claim
the other two.
1t was John Ericsson, an adopted
American, who built the Monitor in
the hour when oldfashioned iron
clads seemed fated to sweep the ocean
of Union commerce.
Yankee inventive genius has been
just as daring and successful in
snatching from nowhere a new ma
chine to upbuild in peace as to tear
down and destroy in war.
Just 100 years ago Charles New
bold, Burlington blacksmith, put an
entirely new force in world agricul-
ture by inventing the first cast-iron
pillow.
1t was years afterward when Oliver
improved that with his chilled
plow
But whether is was Eli Whitney
and his gin IN the cotton plantation,
Cyrus Mccormick and his reaper in
the wheat field or Elisha Howe and his
sewing machine in the home, some one
in this unfettered land has always met
Mother Niece ,sity with true answer.
Whose name is this war to write be-
side the other American inventive
The Terrible Calling Gun
Millions of bullets are shot every
lay from machine guns where allied
,osts meet their Teutonic foe.
Richard Jordan Calling, a modest
North Carolina man, who had invented
| grain drill and seed sower, turned
lis thoughts to killing during the
,arly days of the Civil War, and out
,opped the Calling gun--for decades
.lmost the synonym for all machine
,uns.
| hear military men say that the
'est machine gun in the present war
) an American product. II anybody ,
nows anything about high explo-
ives that is unknown to the du Points
fancy the worlds foremost powder ,
Makers will give reward for evil
ence Of the same.
So I say, when searching for your !.
uperman you will find rich prospects
, good old U. S. A.-From "Girard's
opics Of the Town" in the Philadel- !.
hia Public Ledger.