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6 THE EL~CTRICAL WORKER
The ordinary pin was invented by Samuel
Slocum in 1830.
Josiah Reed was the inventor of the cook­
~ng range now so, universally used.
A French inventor has patented an elec- '
tric hair clipping machine, with a small fan
attached.
The Northwestern Railroad is experimenting
witli a " mail crane," the invention of a
Boone, Iowa, man.
Successful tests have been made by the L.
& N. R. R. of a roller guard, the invention
of L. W. Carden, of Iron City, Tenn. '
A company with a capital of $10,000 bas
been organized to handle a new stone paint,
the invention of a Kentucky man.
A Columbus, Nebr., inventor has secured
a patent oc a weed destroying attachment
for cuitivators which appears practical.
A Bavarian, named Wegmann, has invented
an apparatus which cooks food and
keeps it warm for from ten to fifteen hours.
Dr. Ekenberg, a SwediRh scientist, has invented
a machine for converting skim milk
into a powder which, when dissolved in
water, give the properties of ordinary milk.
A factory has been established at Trenton,
N. J., to manufacture a new boiler stoker,
the invention of Frank J. Wetzel, of York,
Pa., who will be in charge of the plant.
An Indiana inventor is exhibiting to railroad
officials a double deck stock car, in
which the middle floor can be raised to the
roof of the car, leaving it a single deck.
A unique apparatus, 'a track-laying machine,
is attracting much attention in Morgan
township, Ohio. It is the invention of
H. E. Hurley, who has spent ten years in
perfecting it.
Alex. McLaren, of Foit Worth, Texas, is
the inventor of an attachment to a selfbinder
that will gather up the bundles of
wheat as the same comes from the pinder
and shock them in the field.
Jean B. Dandelin. Fall River, Mass., has
procured a patent for improvement in shuttles
and shuttle eyes. The device is said to
do away with the necessity of sticking the
thread through the eye.
H. A. Ship, the inventor of the boot hook,
sold his patent outright for £50, and is now
ending his days in the almshouse. The
purchasers are said to have made more thau
£250,000 (about $1,000,000).
Au inventor of Stockholm has constructed
a machiue which takes 20,000 herrings an
hour, as they come from the net, sorts them
into the four sizes required hy the trade,
scrapes off their scales, cuts off their heads,
splits, cleans aud washes them inside and
out. This seems to be a fish story.
An invention for manufacturing gas out
of chalk has been tried in Sussex, England,
with surprising success. To every hundred
tons of chalk about ten tons of coke or coke
breeze is mixed, aqd from this it is claimed
10,500,000 cubic f~et of gas is obtained.
A Michigan inventor obtained a patent 011
,a machine for manufactllring common ceo
ment brick, which prOvides a. simple and
effective means for forming and pressing
brick of artificial stone' firmly and compactly,
turning them out without blemish,
rapidly and cheaply.
A new folding table, which is adapted to
rest on trunks, chairs, and like supports,
and which, when folded, can easily be
carried in a trunk, has been patened by a
New York inventor. This table will undoubtedly
fill a long-felt want for traveling
salesmen, students, etc.
Charles Miller, engineer on the Black
Diamond Express, has invented a device
which is being tellted on the Reading sys·
tem for automatically stopping trains when
danger signals are displayed. Trains running
at the rate of fifty miles an hour were
stopped within one hundrea yards.
The International Sleeping Car Company
has given orders for building an electric
autocar, which will soon be running upon
the Belgian State Railroad, between Brus-
, sels and Ostend. The distance of seventyeight
and one-dghth miles will be covered,
it stated, in less than an hour. The car will
I;arry forty passengers. It is stated that the