Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1903 — GREAT IDEAS Ilk EMBRYO. [ARTICLE]

GREAT IDEAS Ilk EMBRYO.

XatsvMtiaa Xxfcibit Bsla« Pn»*Nt T , by Iks United. Stats* Patent OSes. The truth of the rule that great Inventions attain their development through the brains of many men will "be Illustrated by a novel and intereetv tag exhibit which the Patent Office at Washington to preparing for the St Louis fair. The exhibit to designed to represent so far as possible by models the first thing of its kind In every line of human invention. Among other things there will be s model of the first cast-iron plow, which was patented by Charles Newbold In 1797. The first screw propeller, which wns Invented by Robert Hook in 1680, will also be shown by model. It will be news to many that the screw propeller was thought of so long ago. The Invention of the steamboat to credited to Robert Fulton, yet In the eighteenth century Denis Papin launched on the Fulda, lu Germany, a boat that was run by steam. It Is a matter of historical record that the river bargemen smashed Papin's boat because they feared it would injure their business. Likewise Included in the exhibit will be a reproduction of the first printing press and the earliest harvesting machine. This latter dates back to 160 B. C. It was a light, two-wheeled vehicle of wood with a pair of shafts, between which an ox was harnessed with its head toward the wagon. Tbs ox pushed the cart, on the front of which was arranged a series of long knives* As the ox wfilked along, the knives cut off the heads of the standing grain. The severed heads fell into the wagon, and by the Ingenious plan of having the of push the cart, instead of drawing It, the grain was not trampled beforehand. There will be a model of the first locomotive ever built, and another representing the earliest steam engine, which was exhibited at the Serapeum, in Alexandria, Egypt, about 130 B, 0. The earliest typewriter, patented in 1842, and the earliest practical sewing machine are also to be represented.