Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1879 — America’s Fifteen Inventions. [ARTICLE]

America’s Fifteen Inventions.

An English journal frankly gives credit to the American genius for at least fifteen inventions and discoveries which, it says, have been adopted all over the world. These triumphs of American genius are thus enumerated: First, the cotton gin; second, the planing machine; third, the grass mower and grain reaper; fourth, the rotary printing press; fifth, navigation by steam; sixth, the hot-air or caloric engine ; seventh,. the sewing machine; eighth, the India-rubber industry; ninth, the machine-manufacture of horse shoes; tenth, the sand-blast for carving; eleventh, the gauge lathe; twelfth, the grain elevator; thirteenth, artificial ice manufacture on a large scale; fourteenth, the elect] o-magnet and its practical application; fifteenth, the composing machine for printers. It is not often that American achievementin this direction receive due credit from such a source.— New York Sun. Notwithstanding the advantages offered by California to immigrants, foreign and domestic, she has not been settled belt sp rapidly as is desired,