Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-05-17
HAD THE GERMANS
ALL THE BRAINS?
Public Speakers Heap Invectives
Upon Nation But Give Credit
For Inventive Genius.

every case the speakers sufiixed sto
their inyectives such an expression
as But when it comes TO brains you
will have to hand it TO them; they
have made science.
why hand it to them? What
epoch making invention or discovery
is of German origin, except a stamp
on which is inscribed Made in Ger
many The steam engine has been
called the greatest of all inventions.
IT broke the shackles from slaves; it
mingled the marts of the world; it
made neighbors of the antipodes.
Newcomer. a native of DevOnshire, OBJ
tanned the patent for the first partial
ly successful steam engine; Watt,
Scotsman, perfected it; Cuynet, Muir
dock and Trevithick brought forward
the locomotive. not on German soil;
Stephenson, an Englishman, was the
first to apply the locomotive steam
engines to railways for passenger
traffic; France, England and America
applied it to navigation.
The telegraph, which brings us the
daily history of the world, was in
vented by an American, Professor
Morse, who also suggested the Allan
tic 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
physicians, a British subject. Ora
ham Bell, the chief inventor of the
telephone, was born in Scotland and
grew to fame in America. A young
Italian, Marconi, gave wireless tele-
graph to the world
Cyrus Mccormick, a native of
West Virginia. produced the reaping
machine which harvests the food of
the world: Meikle, of England,
brought forth the thrashing machine;
thus was famine banished Eli Whit
ney, of Massachusetts parentage, in
vented the cotton gin; Hargraves, an
Englishman, made the spinning jenny;
Arkwright, also English, supplied its
deficiency with his famous spinning
frame; the Englishman Kay intro
duced the fly shuttle in weaving;
Brunei, who devised the knitting ma
chine, and Cartwright, inventor of the
power loom, were British subjects.
Thus was the world clothed.
Although Germany is militaristic
and worships at the shrine of Mars,
what native offering has she made to
the god of war? 1t was not she who
contributed gunpowder, smokeless
powder, percussion cap, nitroglycer-
inc, guncotton, dynamite, torpedo,
shrapnel, automatic cannon, maya
zine rifle, breech-loading gun, Calling
gun. revolver, Maxim silencer, ham
merless gun, gunboat, ironclad bat
teries or ship armor plate, revolving
turret submarine or airplane.
Germany did not produce the first
aniline dye, vulcaniZed rubber, liquid
gases. gas engine, water gas, Their
mometer, barometer, piano forte.
barbed wire, cut nails, plate glass, cir
cular saw, cable car, electric car,
sleeping car, air brake, bicycle, auto
mobile, pneumatic tire, sewing ma
chine, typewriter, calculating machine,
cash register. steel writing pen. etc,
adj infinitum.
THE greatest thing that Germany
has done is to falsely advertise her
self as the light of the world. No son
of hers invented the electric light, the
gas light. the acetylene light, the
kerosene light, the searchlight, the
fiashlight, the safety lamp, the candle
dip or the friction match. America.
France. England and other .'un-
tutored" nations performed these
tasks The sun, moon and stars are
the only lights left for Germany's
contention, and according to the
Mosaic account, the Lord and not the
Kaiser made and placed them in the
armament
"Daguerre. a Frenchman, presented
us with photography. Our own Edi-
son brought forth the motion picture
to delight and instruct the eye and
the monograph to please and teach
the ear. Calico. who first saw the
heavens with a telescope, was an
Italian. The men who first saw the
earth and its teeming life with a
microscope were not of German ORR
gin. BY use of the compound micro
scope. Pasteur, the French biologist.
as early as 1857 demonstrated a con-
nectiOn between microscopic organism
and disease. This was nine years be-
fore DR.. Koch, the German bacteriolo-
gist, had graduated. In this connec-
ton the important antiseptic surgery
of DR.. Lister, of England. should be
recorded. Edward Jenner, the diseov-
erer of vaccination, and Harvey, the
discoverer of the circulation of the
blood. were Englishmen. An Ameri-
can taught the world the use of
anaesthetics. Our dentists excel all
others. They are employed by many
crowned heads-even the Kaiser had
his.
The Teutons have not shown the
engineering skill of the French. who
cut the Suez Canal. or of the Ameri-
can, who joined the Atlantic and
Pacific at Panama The decimal or
metric system by which the Germans
make their measurements, is a gift
from France The method by which
they make their steel is that of Sir