The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-19

VentorS. A few interesting letterS by Whitney are in the lobrary ex- hibition, also a copy of the original patent issued by him, pictures of the Whitneyville Armory, established about 1900, and a prospectus of Whitreys improved fire arms. This prospectus is lent by Edwin Pug sley.
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 Letters of s. F. B. Morse, Yale 1910, inventor of the electric tele- graph, and copies of his work are on display. A picture of the cele- brated submarine, invented by Da- vid Bushnell in ITS, when he had just graduated from college, is shown with contemporary accounts of his invention. A copy of the patent of Eli Whitney Blake's stone crusher is exhibited, and Ithiel Town, the architect of Center and Trinity churches and of the Old State House, is represented by his tract on the Construction of Bridges, work which illustrates his skill as an engineer. An interesting letter by Ithiel Town published in the American Railroad Journal for 1892 is included. This letter, writ ten after a passage of 40 days on a sailing ship on his trip to Europe with S. F. B. Morse, proposes trans Atlantic steam boats. Manuscript letters, pictures and books illustrate the work of Henry Farnam, dis tinguished transportation engineer, and Alexander Catlin Twining, Yale 1920. Henry Farnam was the en- gineer of the Pennington canal, builder of the Michigan Southern, and the Chicago and Rock Island railroads, designer and builder of the first brdige over the Mississippi. Alexander Twining, inventor, en- gineer, astronomer and teacher, was noted as the locating engineer of four railroads centering at New Haven, and the inventor of a ma chine for the manufacture of ice.
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 Another well known local inven- tor, the results of whose work are ill daily use, was Charles Good year, whose process for the vul- canization of rubber was patented in 1914.
 Other inventors represented are Hebekiah Augur, sculptor, the in- ventor of wood-carving machine, a bracket saw and a devise for making worsted lace; Chauncey Je- rome, who had a factory in New Haven in 1844, inventor of a bronze looking glass clock and leader in commercial clockmaking through his invention in 1887 of a noe-day brass clock movement and Thomas Sanford, inventor of phosphorus matches.
 Many of the men whose works are exhibited were graduates of Yale and several were members of the Yale faculty.
 In connection with the exhibition some interesting trade catalogues of New Haven firms are on display. In an industrial center inventive genius has always had an oppor- tunity to develop and the catalogues suggest the multiplicity of patents which must have been taken out for the various articles manufac- tured here. Early catalogues of some firms still existing are shown. Possibly the most interesting cata- logues are those of manufacturers of carriages in New Haven. Various catalogues of automobile fixtures issued by firms manufacturing them in the early part of this century suggest that the town might have become a center of the automobile industry. The sumptuous illustrated catalogue of door locks, knobs, pad locks, etc, issued by Mallory Wheel CT & Co.,, in 1871 is typographical monument and one of the most elaborate trade catalogues ever published.