Cart, in 1783, brought out his reverberairon was rolled into bars and plates. After the initial difficulties were overcome,
ut it ACCORDING to officials of the Asin Realty Company, Mr, Bruno John Basil, Architect, of New York City, will arrive in Shanghai towards the end of this year to join their Architectural He is & graduate of the Yale Architectural School with degree of B.F.A. After scraduation. he was the winner of the much "Steam-Mill Mad"
Even before Watt had effected all hi improvements, Manchestar had gone "steainmail mad", and "gradually during the Last twenty years of the century," wrote Lecky, "dhe now engines came into use me the motive power in manufacture, performing with immensely increased strength and efficiency what had formerly been done by human muscles, by animals, by wind and by water. No other invention since the discovery of printing has affected no widely, so variously and so powerfully the interests of mankind."
In Tacky's opinion it was the steam engine and the cotton mill which enabled ut to meet the expenses of the Napoleonic wars, and "endure without bankruptcy a national debt which hed risen in 1816 to of these remain to-day, for the subsequent inventions of Bessemer, Siemens, Martin and others have given the iron and steel masters furnaces which, while enabling tons to be made where Cart made pounds, does this with far less Labour and with " great saving im fuel, The ancient direct process of making soft iron or steel from the ore in one opera-eight hundred and eighty-four millions."
The work of the textile pioneers contemporary with that of the pioneers of the steam engine, Kay's invention of the flying shuttle in 1739 eventually placed the weavers ahead of the spinners, but the scale war again turned by the introduction in the 1770's of the Jenny of Hargreaves, the roller water-frame of Arkwright, and the "mule" of Crompton; and in 17H4 power way first applied to a oom by Cartwright, In 1773 Meases Strutt and Meed, at Derby, made the first cotton goods in Eng-Innd in which the warp was of cotton: in 176 a Boulton and Watt engine was erected at Papplewick, in Nottinghamshire, for driving spinning machinery, and by 1787 there were no fewer than 145 cotton spinning mills in England and Wales The factory system, with all ite social implications was, however, but one result of successive inventions, for with the increase of the demand for cotton came the invention in 1798 by EH Whitney, in America, of the cotton gin by which a single person could clean more cotton in x dey than in several months by hand. The effect of this inven tion alone was to lead to momentous rewultx, for the Southern Stars became the great cotton producing country, and for " time the fetters of slavery were more closely riveted on millions of people than ever before. Slavery has long since been abolished, but the benefits of Whitney's invention still remain.
The woollen industry was in a state of great prosperity in the Eighteenth Century and was, down to about a domestic in dustry carried out in the homes of the farmers, who produced the wool, and carded, spun and wove it into cloth by the their families Nearly al farmers dep ble them to pay their rent enactments were p export of the raw ma also passed to prevent the m of cotton and wool, or of linen and woe in weaving fabrics planta instead of being allowed wastefully In the air. century ago the discoveries of aday in the laboratory of the Royal Inatitution provided the fructifying principle which bore fruit in the construction of the electric dynamo. Fro has developed the ing industry, which in its light, power, and traction companies, electrochemical plant, and the companies manufacturing electrical equipment and apparatus, provides employment for millions of workers.
The radio industry ix similarly the outcome of the scientific researches of Maywell and Hertz on the properties of electromagnetic waves, and the film the rayon, the aircraft, the automobile, and the synthetic ammonia industries are all the result of fundamental scientific investigations, the practical Importance of which wax undreamt of at the time.
No inventions have had greater effects upon the mind and activities of man than those in the field of electricity, and none have had more beneficin! influence upon civilisation.
The invention of the incandescent elec lamps cannot be regarded other than blessing, neither can the facilities of communication offered by the telegraph and telephone.
Of all the achievements of science, haw-ever, that which creates the deepest im-Pression upon the minds of mort people ix wireless telephony and broadcasting, every development of which is based on researches carried on in lobo' and study reh has developed the devised by Edison an electric pi and photography has expanded int matography, ich millions of industry of cine
people are entertained daily in' most parts
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