The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-12-27
GERMAN GENIUS IMAGINARY.
World Vet to Hear of Mighty Teu.
tonic Achievements.

hoard the Germans arraigned as bla
+ant boorish, barbarous, yet in nearl.
everv case the speakers sufixed tt
+beir inyectives such an expression
&C "But when it comes to brains yor
will have to hand it to them; the!
have made science
What, hand it to them? Wha
matchmaking invention or discovery
is of German origin except stamI
nm which is inscribed, MADE in Ger
many?" Their scientists have kicked
nm a fair amount of spray as they
gamboled in their pool, but the world
has vet to hear of mighty Teutonit
smash. Time and again French
English, American, Spanish and Ita
liam inventors and discoverers have
sent tidal waves around the globe
Let us now be specific.
The steam engine has been called
the greatest of all inventions; it broke
the shackles from slaves; it mingled
the marts of the world! 1t made
neighbors of the antipodes. New
comen. native of Devonshire, OBJ
tanned the patent for the first part
ially successful steam engine; Watt,
a scotchman, perfected it; Cuynot
Murdock, and Trevitick brought for
ward the locomotive, not ON German
soil; Stephenson, an Englshman, was
the first to apply the locomotive steam
engine to railways for passenger
traffic; France, England, and Amer
lea applied it to navigation. When
all had been completed Germany pull
ed the whistle cord, shouted "Hoch
der Kaiser," and tagged it MADE in
GERMANY
Germans Never Invented These.
The telegraph which brings us the
daily history of the world was invent
ed by an American, Professor Morse,
who also suggested the Atlantic cable,
which was subsequently laid by that
American merchant-scientist, Cyrus
Field, assisted in ''mooring the New
World alongside of the Old by LORD
Kelvin, the prince of physicists a
British subject. Graham Eel1, the
chief inventor of the telephone, was
born in Scotland and grew 10 fame
in America. A young Italian, Marco
nj, gave wireless telegraphy to the
world. The House of the Hohenzol-
lern has made great use of these in
ventions in telling Great Britain.
America and Italy in arrogant YER
biage what the Vaterland has done
for the benighted peoples of the
earth.
CYRUS Mccormick, native of West
Virginia, produced the reaping ma
chine which harvests the food of the
world; Meikle, of England, brought
forth the threshing machine; thus
was famine banished. Eli Whitney,
of Massachusetts parentage, invent
ed the cotton gin; Hargraves, an En-
glishman, made the spinning-jenny;
Arkwright, also English, supplied its
efficiency with his famous spinning
frame; the Englishman Kay introduce
ed the fly shuttle in weaving; Brunei,
who devised the knitting machine,
and Cartwright, inventor of the pow
er loom. were British citizens. Thus
was the world clothed.
Although Germany is militarlstlc
and worships at the shrine of Mars,
what votive offering has she made
TO the god of war? 1t was not she
who contributed guncotton, gun pow
der, smokeless powder, percussion
cap, nitroglycerine, dynamite, torpe-
do. shrapnel, automatic cannon, mag
azine rife, breech loading gun, Cat
ling gun, revolver, Maxim silencer'
hammerless gun, gunboat, inronclad
battery or ship, armor plate, revolv-
ing turret, submarine or airplanes.
No German Made These.
Since Germany borrowed her mil
itary appliances from other nations
we are not surprised that she obtain
ed her devices of prosperity from the,
same source. She did not produce
the first aniline dye, vulcanized rub
Der, liquid gases, gas engine, water
gas, thermometer, barometer, piano
forte, barbed wire, cut nails, plate
glass, circular saw, cable car, electric
car, sleeping car, air brake, bicycle,
automobile, pneumatic tire, sewing
machine, typewriter, calculating ma
chine, cash register, steel writing pen,
ct cetera ad infinitum.
The greatest thing Germany has
done is to falsely advertise herself as