El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-30

WASHINGTON, ID. T., NOV. Su--E'Ol
w the past IS months the great
American Brain has been working or
inventions applied to the war. More
than 100000 applications for war pat
ents have been asked Of the govern
Inent and thousands have been grant
ed. Thereare 45 divisions in the pat
ent office. and Of these - are now
more or less busy with inventions con-
nected with the fighting in Europe
Some Of the Applications are impOr-
tant- Others are not worth the paper
upon which they are written. but al
together they show that the brains OF
the nation have been modified for
downing the kaiser.
There is no inventor ike the Ameri-
can inventor. Along the line OF new
forces he stands supreme among the
sons Of man. have before me the
record OF all the patents issued by all
the world. The total is between three
and four millions; and up to 1915 the
United States had brought forth more
than one-third Of this total We are
now turning out new inventions at
the rate Of 80, 900 or $4,000 a year, and
in our output Of patents granted we
are far ahead Of any other nation on
earth In round numbers, up to 1915,
Austria-Huugary had produced only
SO, 900 patents. and Germany some
thing like 500, 900. This is the sum to-
tai OF the inventive brains Of our en-
emies from the time when patents be
gan TO be granted until now During
the same period the United States has
taken out considerably more than
100000 patents, while half million
were granted to France and like
GUM has alWasy been noted as a nest
of inventors Up to the time OF the
war its people had produced 2TlsOOO
patents, or only $4,000 less than the
great empire OF Germany. which Is IS
times the size and has nine or ten
times the number OF people.
Leads TO Discoveries.
But II is not only in the number OF
inventions that the United States
stands ahead It IS far in advance Of
all other countries as to the discov-
les which have revolutionized the in
dustries Of the world. During the
past so years man has produced some
thing like so epoch making inventions,
and Of these IS have come from the
United States. Three have been made
by the Germans, four by the English,
two by the Austrians. two by the
French and two by the Swedes. AL Of
these inventions enter into the con-
duet Of the great war In Europe, and
without them ii could not 90 on Let
me mention some Of the more impor-
lant OF them I shall take those Of
the foreign nations first Smokeless
powder and electric steel came from
the French, manganese steel and the
cyanide processes for extracting metal
were invented by the English, while
Nobel, a Swede. supplied dynamite,
and wireless telegraphy came from
the italian, Marconi The Germans in
vented the Diesel oil motor and the
Otto cycle gas engine, and the Aus
TRANS gave US the by-product oven
which has so much to do with making
drugs, dyes and explosives These are
among the great things that have
come out OF Europe during the past
half century.
In War Movement.
Now look at the United States and
see how its inventive brains enter into
every war movement We have the
telephone from Bell, the incandescent
lamp from Edison, and the arc light
discovered by Brush. We have the
split phase Induction motor Of Tesla,
which has such a great part in our
electrical machinery and electrical
welding as brought forth by
Thompson, when promises 70 t4Ae
the place Of riTetng in making
our great bridge OF ships across
the Atlantic. Americans have in
vented the machines for making the
barbed wire so much used in front OF
the trenches; and the airorakes used
DN ever. railroad mere anu III LUZ tES
are based on the invention OF West
inghouse. It was the Yankee Patter-
son who invented the cash register
and Eastman, another Yankee, brought
forth the transparent Photographic
film. which forms the foundation OF
all war photography. Allied to the lat
ter is the motion picture machine in
vented by Edison, which enables the
airman at one second intervals TO
take photographs Of the country be-
low him in such a way that they give
a complete map Of the region over
which he IS travelling.
Typewriter Is American
The typewriter is an American In
vention, and every machine that flies
the air is based upon the discoveries
Of Langley. The most Of the metal
now used in modern warfare is man
ufactured by the aid OF American in
ventions Of one kind or another. The
rotary converter was invented by
Bradley in 1887. and the dry-air pro-
cess for blast furnaces by Gayley. a
few zears LATER Harvevized aruor