Various.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 1, 3 January 1901, Page 19

Various.

Among the minor, yet important, discoveries, inventions, or devices of the century we may briefly enumerate the following : The phonograph ; the bicycle ; chemical fire-extingnisher ; anaesthetics and antiseptics in surgery ; the spectroscope ; pneumatic tubes ; the typewriter ; envelopes and penny postage ; the hydraulic elevator ; steam heating; vestibule c-irs ; the Westinghouse airbrake ; cantilever bridges ; the Jacquard loom ; the linotype, monotype, and other type-composing machines ; harvesting and threshing machinery ; the Rontgen rays ; the steam hammer ; breeoh-loadiog and magazine rifles ; torpedoes ; armored vesse's, etc. ; refrigerating machinery ; macadamised roads ; and the lock-stitch sewing machine, which was first successfully made by Elias Howe in 184 G. Various types of sewing machines have been devised since then. And they have ended for ever the plaint of the hapless needlewomam so pathetically told by Hood in his ' Song of the Shirt ' :— Work — work — work Till the bran begings to swim ; Work — work —work Till the eyes are heavy and dim ! Seam and gusset and band, Band and gusaet and Beam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream.