THE GLORY OF INVENTION AND PICTURES OF CELEBRATED INVENTORS AND
SCIENTISTS
Great and glorious are the opportunities for the lucky individual
possessing the required high standard of intelligence, education,
taste, and means of devoting himself to scientific investigations
and experiments, discovering and giving to the world new
scientific truths, and means of harnessing them to various human
usefulness, coming within range of different dynamic forces, such as:
steam, gas, electricity, hydraulics, etc. The gates of the treasuries
of rapturous joy are ajar to him, all his life, and an honored memory
afterwards, as enduring as the civilization that made his triumphs
possible. The products of his genius are his monuments, and are of
greater beauty than any sculptor could produce. More enduring than
the Pyramids, always noted by admiring and grateful humanity, to whom
it gives comfort and inspiration.
[Illustration: NEWTON
DISCOVERER OF GRAVITATION.]
[Illustration: STEPHENSON
INVENTOR OF STEAM ENGINE.]
[Illustration: ELI WHITNEY
INVENTOR OF COTTON GIN.]
[Illustration: ERICSSON
INVENTOR OF THE "MONITOR."]
[Illustration: HERSCHEL, ASTRONOMER.]
[Illustration: S. F. B. MORSE, INVENTOR OF THE TELEGRAPH.]
[Illustration: ROBERT FULTON, INVENTOR OF THE STEAMBOAT.]
[Illustration: BENJ. FRANKLIN, SCIENTIST.]
[Illustration: ELIAS HOWE, INVENTOR OF THE SEWING MACHINE.]
[Illustration: JAS. WATT, INVENTOR OF THE MODERN STEAM ENGINE.]
[Illustration: LORD KELVIN, SCIENTIST.]
[Illustration: THOS. A. EDISON, THE SAGE OF LLEWELLYN, INVENTOR
OF THE PHONOGRAPH, INCANDESCENT LIGHT, ETC.]
[Illustration: SIG. MARCONI, INVENTOR OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.]
[Illustration: SIR H. BESSEMER, INVENTOR OF BESSEMER STEEL.]
[Illustration: C. H. MC CORMICK, INVENTOR OF THE REAPING MACHINE.]
[Illustration: PROFESSOR HUXLEY, SCIENTIST.]
[Illustration: HUMBOLDT, SCIENTIST.]
[Illustration: CHAS. DARWIN, DISCOVERER OF EVOLUTION.]
[Illustration: SEYMOUR M. BONSALL, INVENTOR OF THE "INNOVATION
INGENUITIES."]
One cannot possibly fail to get enthusiastic over the achievements
of the long line of great scientific minds, who have made our
civilization possible. "When will their glory fade?"
More humble, yet as useful, are the numerous inventors whose
achievements necessarily come under the Third, Fourth and Fifth
classification. The inventing and designing of a machine to do work
more quickly and better than has been always done by hand increases
and cheapens a useful production, placing it within reach of those
who would otherwise be deprived of it, and always eliminates drudgery.