Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1908 — Most Useful Invention. [ARTICLE]

Most Useful Invention.

A French newspaper recently held a public ballot to decide the question which was the ino3t useful of the modern discoveries, and the locomotive Ved the list, with others following in this order: Potatoes, vaccine, enre of hydrophobia, sugar, telegraph, matches, steam boiler, telephone, petroleum, sewing machine aud soap. The development of electricity seems to have been overlooked.