The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-05
.(Continued from yesterday)


 Influence of Inventions History
 Apart from her material ths United States owes her commanding position in the omic sphere inventive genius people than any single factor. devel- opment of those material resources is mostly to the processes and mechanisns which have result ed rom invention Unaided labor that is, primal hu man energy, would have been of little avail in extracting the enormous wealth bowels of the earth in gathering the immense ducing the stupendous output of steel and other metals in the mills refneries fabricating the huge quantities of manufactured articles that from the factory and shop, transporting the raw and finished materials that make up our almost unlimited tonnage of rail and shipping. Without the influence of invention could not conceive O modern world as developed from the old world of manual operations. Without such inven- tions as the steam, engine the locomotive, the steamship, the telegraph, the telephone the automo- bile. the trolley the electric light the dynamo, the motor the reaper, the cotton gin, the printing press the smelling furnace our present civilization could exist. To invention alone vastly increased m prodnc'oh or the Irls ol the eaTtn ana of the materials of manufacture; to invention alone must we look for such further increment of wealth that the reasonable aspirations of every civilized being may be Irovided for.
 As the world depend the solution of social and economic problems for the proper and equitable distribution of the products of labor it must be through the of invention that suf hainv So+ an11 is irvan+io9 +b Doaanz br which the increased productivity necessary of the economic state must be accomplished, but it is the medium through which the worker hnay express ideas way of improving pro- and machines. Invention is the direct means for advancing the workers state, and many of the greatest inventions have from the ranks at he bench, lathe, shop and the labora- tory the democratic of opportunities and rewards (where the intent of the system is ob are equitable
 countries in the world the United States benefited invention. Her inventors from notable list in the sphere of applied sci ence, contributions the wonder and he competitors for industrial macy. T. cotton gin the South largely her prosperity, and the Northern textile mills suffi- of materinl; to the Mccormick West in small degree her de- velopment the country a plentitude of food ducts. To he patent instituted in this country, has encouraged and protected and thus stimulated invention, do this ad- vantage primarily. a recent address by Sir Rob- ert A. HadfieId Sheffield, England of the worlds greatest inventors, leading authority metaurgy, a manufacturer of worldwide reputation, he said:
 As showing low Patents for Inventions strike a. "new" nation, may De mentioned that the Jap anese Government, when considering the establish by the American Act of March 1, 1899 to Washington. D. C. On being asked why the people piled: is only since Commodore Perry in 1854 that Japanese been trying to become great nation, looked about us to see what nations the greatest. so that we can be like them, wet There is the United States not much more 100 years old, and America not discovered by Columbus until 400 years ago. We said, What that makes the United States such