AMERICAN INVENTIONS.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1158, 13 March 1874, Page 4

AMERICAN INVENTIONS.

Our brethren on the other side of what they delight to call the "big horse pond" arc certainly not afllictcd with the weakness of " hiding their light under a bushel." The Mining and Scientific Press recounts the achievements of its countrymen thus :—" Hail Columbia!— The cotton-gin, without which the machine-spinner and the power-loom would be helpless, is American. The power-shuttle, which permits an unlimited enlargement of the breadth of the web, is American. The planing machine is American. Navigation by steam is American. The mower and reaper are American. The rotary printing presses are American. The hot-air engine is American. The sewing-machine is American. The machine manufacture of wool cards is American. The whole india-rubber industry in American. The hand-saw originated, wo believe, in America. Th§ machine manufacture of horse-shoes is American. The sand blast, of which the large capabilities are yet to bo developed, is American. The gaugelathe is American. The only successful composing machine for printing is American. . The grain elevator is ah American invention. .The artificial manufacture of ice was originally invented by Professor A. S. Twining, an American. The electro-magnet was_ invented, and immediately after jts invention was first practically applied in transmitting" telegraphic signals by Professor Joseph Henry, an American.. The telegraphic instrument introduced a few years later into public use, which has since obtained universal acceptance, was invented by Samuel E. B. Morse, an American."