Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1910 — A Humble Invention. [ARTICLE]

A Humble Invention.

To forget the inventions of the hout is an Impossibility. They are before one at every turn, and many of then] contain possibilities vast and much discussed. For that reason it is well occasionally to contemplate some ii* vention of the past which works un remittingly and inconspicuously for the welfare of mankind. Consider the air brake. How many, when they take a journey by rail, ever take thought of the device which stands ready to insure safety from possible accidents? All are so used to the sibilant noise below the Cars that they never consider its portentousness. Yet by this application of the power of compressed air, tens of thousands of lives have been preserved, and railroad travel has been made more expeditious. All this is arrant truism; not a wofj of it but what has been said scores of times before. But we like to dwell upon the air brake as one of those typical inventions which are doing their work .faithfully and humbly while recent Creations get the glo*y and applause.— ! Collier’s.