Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 31, 1915, Page 4

: ] : { o S5 A R Y ! i i INVENTORS OF BIG THINGS United States Leads the World in the Matter of Making Soientific Discoveries. ENGLAND IS A POOR SECOND Bome N“Ik’r—r}; 7;mnn who didn't have anything else to do started a news- paper row, recently, as to which of the great ofvillzed countries had produced the greatest inventions. It began with & gentle apear-tilting between advocates of German progress and persons who wished to demonstrate that the Ger- mans did not have any monopoly on in- ventive genius, says the St. Louls Post- Dispateh, 7t all might have been avolded If the | combatants had only taken the troubls | to consult the encyclopedias in the ref- | erence room of any library. Here, for the mere trouble of looking, any per- son could have discovered in a few min~ utes that the United States far outranke all other nations. For out of sixty-six epoch-making inventions twenty-nine of them were made in this country. Eng- gland comes next with seventeen, France third with ten, Germany fourth with five, Italy fifth with two, and Bra~ #il, Sweden and Austria with one each, nnrave lvery Process, In this catalogue a sharp distinction is drawn between the discovery of a sclentifi principle and the application 't that principle in & successful mechani cal device. In other words, the things counted are only the first practical de velopments of great sclentiic prineiples. 1t scientifle discoveries were clussed a8 inventions, German genius would make a far better showing than it has in this list. German chemats have per- fecied processes now uscd throughout the industrial world and have improved almost every process they have taken in hand. But a discovery, such as rad- tum, ia not the same thing as an in- vention, such as the phonograph. The Germans, who have been pioneers in many frontiers of aclence, have neg- lected, relatively, that of mechanical in- vention. The oldest invention catalogued in this st was the product of B Torricelll, an | Italian. Before his time mariners had very unsatisfactory means of forecasting great weather disturbances, By the ap- plication of a few well-understood ‘sclon- tific principles and the evolution of new omes Torricelll produced the barometer. This was in 164, The thermometer s an article of house- hold necessity nowadays, yet, curiously @nough, the first thermometer was not Gonstructed until 1908, sixty-six years after Torricelll's barometer appeared Ita inventor was a Prussian named Fahren-| heit, whose name today distingulshes the seale of measurements of the ther-| mometers in common use in the United States. Ben and His Kite, Every achoolboy knows about Benjamin Franklin and his kite, and every achool- boy knows that Franklin was the first in-| ventor of a lightning conductor. To the printer-philosopher goes the credit of founding the American School of Inven- ‘tion, which has made so many brilllant .zmvm within the last half cen. “tury. The spinning jenny, which revolution- ised methods of cloth weaving, was the Invention of an Knglishman, J. Har- freave . Thirty-one years later, in 179, ‘Whitney, an American, Invented the #in. A lgrest part of the early “manufacturing prosperity of our own ‘Gountry had its origin in these creations. Equally as well known as Franklin's Kite Is Jamie Watt's teakettle. If the former was the beginning of modern elec- trical mechanics, the latter was the be- mlll‘ of modern power development, g Watts Is immortal as the inventor of in 1901, Wrights the Bird Men, Frenchman, Montgolller, { ?aff’§ Al phitt i L] §§5§!§§ggi T arc, and M. Faraday of England, in 153, created the first serviceable magnetic- induction apparatus, But the telegraph process of vulcanising rubber. H. Bes- semer of England, in 1856, invented the Bessemer steel process, and, the follow- Ing year, W. H. Porkin, another Eng- lishman, Lovented the éirst practical ani- line dye. Blemens Martin of England, in 1566, invented the open-hearth steel process. ‘The first automatio harvesting machine was perfected In 1834 by M. McCormick, an American. The double oylinder print. ing press, modifications of which are in use In all great newspaper offices, was the creation of R. Hoe, another Ameri- can. O, Mergenthaler, another Ameri- can, by the invention of the linotype, In 1884, rovolutionized the printing process throughout the world. thome of other nationalities In perfecting engines of destruction. The first satls- fastory, revelver was the product of C, Colt of this country. Guncotton was in- vented by a German, C. Schoubeln, In 1846, twenty-two yoars before A. Nobel, & Swede, Invented dynamite. Smith & Weason of the United States perfected the first magasine firearm. J. Bricsson, an Amerioan, invented the figst armor- clad warship, In 1862, the samé year In which R, Gatling, another American, invented the rapid-fire gun which bears his name. Bimon Lake's Ameorican sub- marioe was the parent of all the subma- rines which have proven #o effective in the present war, ! This for & German. J. Schultse, a German, invented smoke- loss powder In 183, Three yoars later ‘Whitehead, an American, invented the marine, self-propelling torpedo. * Some of the other things Americans in- vented and the year of the invention are: Friction matches, J. Walker, 1527 Typewriter, C. Thurber, 1843 BSewing machine, B. Howe, 1346 States being the only others with more| than one invention acoredited to each. TWO OMAHA MEN IN AUTO UPSET NEAR MYNARD PLATTSMOUTH, Neb., clal)—~H. G, Walker and Harry Hoff- | master, both of Omaha, were slightly in- [Jured in an sutomoblie sccident near 1] AOCVE = TESTING NERRING SHIPIENT. oo ICELAND HERRING CAN NOW BE SERVED ON AMERICAN TABLES--Above is shown railroad agents and government inspectors testing the shipment of 5,000 barrels of herring, and below is the steamer which brought them to the United States last week. BELOW — OCTUBER 31, 1915. " CASES OF UNCONSCIOUS WIT, | Making Bad Bulls in Times Past Has | Given the Opinion that Makers i Were Wise Men. SOME SPECIMENS ARE CITED It was Sir Richard Steele who said that the “bull” was a result of climate, and that if an Englishman were born in Ireland he would make just s many The collection of this form of wif s very timely. Now, of all times, we need wit and kindly humor. And those qualities belong In generous measurs to J. C. Percy, whome book of “Bulls and Blunders” has given ms an hour or two's | | delighttul relaxation, says T. r.ai Weekly. Mr. Percy gwes a fina specimen from | old times fact that in May, 174, & b\ relating to franking was sent from Ireland for the royal assent. One clause enacted (bat | any member who, from llness of ary | other cause, should bs unable to write, might | him, provided that “m the back of Lhe‘ [letter o franked the nember gave un- | der his hand a full certificate of hls in- ability to write.” | Even Cobbett managed to perpetrate | the following sentence in “Rural Rides: “I saw no corn standing in ricks, & thing 1 never saw before and would not have belfeved it had I not seen it.” Humor expresses Itself in action as | well as words. The Irisii Ffebels of 179 enacted & “bull’ of a remarkabie kind. | They. wished to annoy the Hon.' John Bereaford, a banker. So, forgetting that every bank note that i lost relleves a | bank of Habllity, they collected at grdat | expense & pile of Beresford paper money | and burnt it with great sound and fury. | | Mr. Perey. tells another -story, this| time of a psychologic “bull,” from be- | | yone Rhine: R } “There is a_most excellent story of a | German old maid, who had petitioned the | | authorities to remove a great biil from |1in front of her house,’in order that she might get an unobatructed view 6f n.al river Rhine, The authorities ‘were un- | obliging and pigheaded, and would not | move the hill. The old malil pleaded, but | quite In vain. But she was a plous Bible-reading woman, and a lineal de- scendant of Martin Luther into the bar- ain. 8he remembered the text about the falth that cen move mountains, an® |she resolved to try it on the great, troublesome hill that cut off her view of the beautiful Rhine. Bhe decided upon a night of the prayer that the TEUTON ARMIES MENACE GREAT SERB ARSENAL (Continued from Page One.) finding an echo in the discussion as to the ‘advisabllity of creating a British war council to consist of the preml War secretary and first lord of the ad- miralty, to have supreme direction of the war, It 1s yeported upofficially that King George, who was injured on Thursday by a fall from his horse, passed a good Nor have Americans lagged behind | day yesterday. Rose Army On Way to Bulgaria, COPENHAGEN, Oct. #.—~(Via Lon- don.)~Large contingents of Russian troops have set sall from the Black sea ports of Odessa and Bebastopol for the Bulgarian coast, the Berlin Tageblatt says. The dispatch telegraphed to the Tage- blatt from Bucharest says that the transports are convoyed by a strong wquadron. 'The recent attack by Rus- slan warships on the Bulgarian port of Varna, according to this account, was made in preparation for an attempt to land troops. ¥ French Report Gains. PARIS, Oct, 80.—French progress last night af Bols Bn Hache and the repulse S.S. BOTN/A o e mountain might be removed, with im- plicit confidence that her prayer would be answered. All night long she wres- tled like Jacob of old. In the morning NEBRASKA. CASES DECIDED Supreme Court Rules that Formet | fidently drew the curtatn of her window Opinion in Madison Case that looked toward the mountain, stag- is Good. gered back with apparent surprise, and . exclalmed: ‘And there it stands, just | a8 I expected! " BOONE COUNTY CASE SETTLED| An Irish M. P., somewhat wearied by debate, perpetrated the following: “‘If (From a Btaff Correspondent.) you leave this question to us for three LINCOLN, Oct. 3.—(Special.)—~The si-, Years, we will settle It tomorrow morn- preme court has decided that a formier | ing." opinion rendered by it in the Madison It Fuils to Cure. county commissioner case was correct.; '‘Sir Bdward Carson,’ says the au- In that opinion the holding of the Madi-| thor, “is specially addicted to the Taurus son county district court was reversed. Hibernicus, which long residence in The case was one in which a commis- London has falled to ‘cure.’ I have !\ut‘ sloner had been elected in 1906, 1308 and room for two prime ‘Carsonian speci- | 1911, The statutes and some ocourt Mens. The Ulster leader sald, ‘Mr. As- opinions were in confusion and the of-/ Guith was like a drunken man walking ficers and people of Madison coufify ‘along & stralght lne—the further he considered that the term of officg of Went the soomer he fell.' At Mount commissioner in ocounties not under' Pdsecombe Bir Bdward referred in cor- tdwn orgenisation and having three Q1A terms ‘to the gentleman I see be- commissioners was three years. At that Nind me. And his friend, Mr. F. B | time the law provided that a county, SWith, M. P. in discussing the Paria- commissioner should be elected annually | Nt act with its famous preambie, re- for three. years. ferred to them as ‘twin bills, the younger The high court holds that this law|°f Which had not yet been bomn.’" should be disregarded because the law | v i, (hese ems it would be hard to popsssly. 4D .ot ey pete. But the book is full of them. Fallure to Give Notioe x::::.'g Ag‘m:;:hn ::a iyl The fact that there was a fallure to u,p.,..gu:v,o s b e g Sive the statutory notice of election Of| The mixed metaphor, like the “‘shibbo-| county commissioner will not of itself leth,” often is the result of looking on | invalidate the election. But If it ap-|the wine when it is red. But sometimes, pears that such failure has prevented!as in the following instance, it is the re- the election generally from voting upon!sult of a vigorous attempt at vitupera- & question, it cannot be held that their|tion: The text of the communication fol- lowa: “In the Artols district last night we made progress at Bols En Hache and ocoupled ‘& wection of the ememy's trenches. "To the southwest of Souches the Ger- mans ‘this morning undertook an atteck 3 4 surrison of Agua Prieta, So- BOrA, opposite here. Besides his 5000 soldiers, Villa was authoratively repo.ted to have twenty- elght field pleces of unknown caliber and efficiency. To oppose General | Pelias Calles, the Carransa commander, has approximately 5,70 troops, ten eow | of artillery and between thirty wid ...y machine guns. Unless reinforcemen come over the American side, via Eagle Puass, and arrive tonlght, they will be too late for the opening sun of the battle. an encampment of troops hardly a mile north of the border, where Brigadier General Thomas F. Lavis, who assumed command yesterday, has about 6,000 soldiers, with sixteen three-inch Suns. The United States troops have definite orders to keep Mexican soldiers | NEW YORK, Oect. %.~Announcement on thelr own side of the international |was made at the headquarters of the line and to prevent them from shooting | Federal league today thet eGorge 8. into the United States. One of Them Came Out Ahead. the late Robert B. Ward, at the next - hh%flmwmm the news, youth rushed into o L e R TP has been an election npon that question.| ‘“There was an editor or a local paper Wil} Hold Job in Boone. in @ little Wisconsin town who was a! A. J. Tisthammer, elocted as county|®oUrce of perennial joy. It is on record commissioner of Boone county in 1914, |0 his files, observed by an appreciative will hold that office for four years,| 108l reader, that one week, while re-| according to an opinion of the supreme| "UKINS some helnous charge by the op- court which ‘holds: position, he announced that ‘chiokens,| E IR : g ; £ H g 5 13 8 g 3 12 ¢ into Messrs. So and So's on account of the rush, and getting out was worse.' My colleague (Mr. Meoredy) took me for action of the lower court, Douglas Case Reversed. In an opinoin written by Chief Justice Morrissey of the supreme court, the juds- ment of the Douglas county district court is reversed in a case, where 8 J. Coff- man attempted to force his partner, Matt Malone, to buy out his partnership in a commission budiness in South Omaha. The district court found for Hoffman, but the higher cqurt reverses the lower court and sends the case back for & re- trial, Malone claimed that the contract made store of storles. For every one we take out half a dosen seem to come in. And his child humor 18 prolifio: “Desmond,” sald the teacher, “‘what is the spinal column?* “The spinal column,™ said Desmond, “is what my head sits on one end and I sit on the other.™ other purpose than (o influence Amos Suyder, the third partuen, fo sell out his interest in the business for §1,600, which was successful. The question then As they sweep westward toward Agua |than insisted that Malone by his stock Prieta, the Villa foroes must pass near | and over this controversy the suit was ts [CAMe UP as to the disposition of the |turn the bears om you and they'll Snyder stock and in the ssttlement Ma- |You Up" And they did, and he did, lone refusec to take the shisck of Coff- |the bears did." d man and demanded oasi. 4 The latter | Two American stories are too misa. We hope they will not be &s & breach of neutrmlny: “An American teacher stationed | brousht. GEORGE S. WARD WILL BE HEAD OF BROOKLYN FEDS Ward 18 to be elected president of the Brooklyn club, to succeed his brother, meeting of the stockholders. Mr. Ward was closely assoclated with his brother in the atfairs of the Brooklyn elub, and s said to have similar views regarding its polioy. Apertments, flats, houses rented and and cottages can be Bee “For Reat." | | ) between Coffman and himself, was for no | narrative Woman I Killed by Train Near Walnut ATLANTIC, Ia., Oct. 30.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Mre. Redington, aged about about | #, who livtd near Walnut, was struck by | | Rock Island eastbound local No. 26 this morning two milés east of Walnut and | instantly kifled. The inquest will be held Monday. Deceased leaves a husband, but no children Walnut Man AVOCA, Hillmath, Drops Dead at Avoea. T, aged @ years, dropped dead here this morning at 10 o'clock in the, office of Paulsen's rooming house. He had worked here for several years as a | baker and had no known relatives. 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