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INVENTIONS OF THE DAY. THE LONDONQEXHIBITION. seed, he commenced a series of experiments to dis

There are many who wonder, and inquire"What cover the defect. He soon found it in the roll as the becomes of the inventions that are now so numerous The ceremony of awarding the prizes of the Great cotton is fed to the saws, and remedied it by a very and for which so many patents arc obtained? Surely,': Exhibition took place on the 11th. The Duke of simple device. He also added another improvement they say,"they cannot be of much worth or we Cambridge officiated as representative of the Queen, to gather the cotton as it comes from the gin and , should hear more about them." It is true that many supported by the leading members of the Cabinet prevent it from flying about through the air thus dispensing with the necessity of a gin house, and ren things arc patented which are of minor importance and a large number of foreign princes and digni taries: compared with other things, but there is not a single The attendance was estimated at 100,000. dering it possible to gin cotton in the open air. Mr. article patented but must show some decisive proofs Among the awards twenty medals have been gran t Emery is now on his way to London to show his im proved gin at the Great Exhibition. of originality and usefulness. ed to American exhibitors for improved agricultural machines and implements, seven for firearms inclu The public must not judge lightly of the value of New Steamers. ding Colt's revolvers, and one for naval architecture. patents, because their virtues are not blazoned abroad We present to our readers, as below, the prominent This is the whole of the information which has yet continually with truml et tongue. Let any person particulars of the steamers Creole, City of Norwich and reached us respecting the awards. When we receive of experience pass in review before his mind the ad New England. These vessels are constructed of the the names of the American exhibitors to whom prizes vancement made in the improvement of things really best materials, and of extraordinary strength. They have been granted, we shall present more informa useful, and the value of such improvements will be are peculiarly adapted for their re.3pective routes of tion on the subject. felt and acknowledged. It is only by encouraging service, and the skill and ingenuitimanifested in THE AMERICAN DEPARTMENT. inventions that we can expect a continuance of im their erection, are regarded as of su perior order. Mechanics' llfagazine, provement in those things useful to man. We are The London in its notices of THE PROPELLER CREOLE. American articles says: -" Among the many useful too prone to neglect the worthy, and be ungrateful Hull constructed by Mr. Charles H. Mallory; ma inventions from the United States, perhaps the most to inventors above all others. Does the merchant chinery by Mr. Charles H. Delamater; route of remarkable is the power loom for weaving tufted who is whirled over the railroad in one tenth of the service, New York to New Orleans, La.; owners, fabrics. This is the invention of Mr. A. Smith, of time which it once required him to travel from this Messrs. Ludlam, Heineker & Co., New York. West Farms, New York, and is intended for weaving to that place, ever offer up a heartfelt tribute to the Httll.-Length on deck, 194 feet; breadth of beam, 34 inventor of the locomotive-to him who hab saved the Axminster carpets or any other tufted or pile feet; depth of hold, 18 feet 7 inches; depth of hold to spar deck,25 feet 6 inches; draf t of water at load line 14 fabric which requires cutting and is produced from a him so much time and expense in performing his feet; tunnage, 1,056 tuns. Frame of white oak &c. journey? We will answer in the negative. What pattern. Unlike either the Jacquard or the old draw Floors, molded 15 inches, sided 8 inches; and a�e 26 inches apart attheir centers. man among us offers a tribute of heartfelt thankful loom, the pattern designed is formed by the arrange Engines.-Vertical direct; diameter of cylinders ' 36 ness to our inventor-him who, by his wonderful ment of the spools which are suspended over the inches; stroke of piston,12 feet. genius, sends a message of life-fraught importance, machine to the number of 270. These produce a BO'ilers.-One, retnrn flue; has one blower. Propeller.-Diameter, 12 feet; material, cast iron. over a thousand miles of space, in a few seconds, pattern the whole width of the material and lz yards THE SIDE WHEEL STEAMER CITY OF NORWICH. bringing baek on the lightning's wings, words of long, and at every throw of the shuttle, a piece of Hull built by JIIlr. John Englis; machinery by hope and gl"dness, relieving a dreadful suspense, mechanism rises up like so many fingers, catches hold Allaire Iron Works; route of service, New York t.o which not long »go, would have had to endure for of the threads and weaves them in. A knife then Norwich; owners, Norwich and New York Trans days and weeks? We will answer: No one. We passes swiftly.over it and cuts off the tufts to any portation Company. might go on piling up name upon name of those length required. Any design can be woven in it in Hull.-Length on deck, 208 feet; breadth of beam, 36 parts, which when united will have the appearance of men who have benefited every individual. by the feet; depth of hold,12 feet 6 inches; draft of water at works of their genius; but we believe that we have being woven in one piece, and the loom will produce loa� line,5 feet 3 inches; tunnage,895 tuns. Frame of twenty-five yards in one day. This loom has re WhIte oak, &c., and strapped with iron, diagonal and said enough to impress the mind of every person double laid. ceived great attention from scientific Englishmen and with the importance and value of the inventions of Engines.-Yertical beam; diameter of cylinder ' 52 inches; stroke of piston,10 feet. the day. Earl Granvi\l&, who is well acquainted with weaving Boilers.-One, return tubular; located in hold, and does operations, has declared publicly that it is destined to not use blowers. THANKS TO OUR FRIENDS. achieve great results. Watel' Wheels.-Diameter, over boards, 31 feet·' ma te- rials, wood and iron. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN L. A. Bigelow, of Boston, exhibits several machines The subscribers to the whose THE SIDE WHEEL STEAMER NEW ENGLAND. term expired on the 1st of July have shown more connected with the operations of boot and shoe mak Hull built by Mr. John Englis; machinery by than usual aliwrity in renewing their subscriptions. ing. One machine pares the leather intended for soles so as to reduce the whole to an equal thickness, Morgan Iron Works; route of service, Boston to St. We have them mostly all back again upon our subscrip Johns, N. B. ; owners, Messrs. J. B. Coyle & Co. tion books, besides a great many new friends are be another cuts out the soles at the rate of twenty pairs Hull.-Length on deck,230 feet; breadth of beam 32 per minute and another machine trims the heels. stowing upon us their patronage. To the following feet; depth of hold, 12 feet 6 inches; draf t of wate� at 6 gentlemen we desire to express our thanks, for pro The uppers are also cut out mostly by machinery. load line, 7 feet inches; tunnage, 900 tuns. Frame of The parts of a boot having been all placed together white oak, &c.,which is strapped with iron, diagonal and curing and sending large lists of subscribers, and to double laid, 4 by � inches. with the sole ready to sew on, the sewing machine others, whose names we do not give, who have sent Engines.-Vertical beam; diameter of cylinder ' 53 exhibited stitches on the soles of 150 pairs of boots inches; stroke of piston,11 feet. smaller numbers, we are proportionately grateful. Boilers.-One, return flue; located in hold, and uses per day. These machines have surprised English From the annexed named pel sons we have received two blowers. Water WheAls.-Diameter, over boards, 30 feet; ma clubs varying from fifteen to fifty subscribers during shoe manufacturers. te Blakes' American machine for breaking the small rialS, wood and iron. the past three weeks. The number who have sent stones used for macadamized roads is also exhibited us clubs of from six to ten subscribers are too many Inventors Active. by Mr. Bigelow. This mach ine was employed for to tina room to enumerate in these columns but ' There has been no periori within our lllemory friends we are grateful to yon all breaking the stones employed to make the walks in the New York Central Park. The London JJ[echanics' when inventive genius seemed to be developillg itself J. W. Mount, AllJion, N. Y. Magazine has the following respecting it: ;, We should faster among our people than the present. Many Geo. Gibbs, Canton, Ohio. like to see such a machine in use in this country. who never invented before, and did not know they J. P. Hall, Pekin, Ill. We have seen on the roadside, especially in the had capacity for conceiving a new idea, have been J. E. Parker, Grand R"pids, Mich. North, men, and even women exposed to the heat of stimulated by the success of some neighbor or ac G. Anderson, Lall8ingburgh. N. Y_ the sun, toiling hour after hour in breaking stones quaintance who has realized a few hundred or a few W. Skene & Co., Louisville, Ky. for the nighway�,an occupation requiring no skill and thousand dollars on some patented article, to put G. Bantz, Frederick City, Md. remunerated at the rate of eighteen pence per day. their wits to work. The consequence is a new crop R. Allen, Budingtoll, [owa. of inventors seem to be taking the place of those ,1. B. Christian, Mount C:,lTroll, Ill. It easily crushes flints, greenstone and the most ob formerly identified as comprising the fraternity. J. K. Derby, .Jamestown, N. Y. stinate trap to any dimensions required for concrete, We learn of a number of sales of p,tents in very railway ballast, and roe.ds." This machine would be C. Eherback, Ann Arbor, Mich. small articles latterly at very remunerative prices. one of the most valuable acquisitions to England W. ]'_ Beecher, Chicago, Ill. where all the common roads are macadamized and kept S. Thomas, Plymouth Hollow, Conn. FROM THE SANDWICH ISLANDs.-The New Bedford in the most perfect repair. C. C. Dennis, Richmond, Ind. Mercury gives the following general information of F. A. Bishop, Placemill, Cal. EMERY'S COTTON GIN. the business of Honolulu, from a correspondent: W. F. Pratt, Bristol, Pa. The number of whale ships touching there has ma In Albany, N. Y., is a family of brothers by the S. Holmes, Bridgewater, Mass. terially diminished, but other enterprises have sprung name of Emery, who have a large establishment for R. H. Fitz, St. Paul, Milln. up, compensating for this loss. Many rice and sugar the manufacture of agricultural machines and imple W. P. Martin, Woodstock, N. B. pl antations are now in successful operation. Fins ments. Among the great variety of machines which P. W. Gates, Chicago, Ill. wheat is now raised, and an excellent article of flour they make is an improved horse power, and two years exported. The rice, sugar, and molasses are stated THE ship Comtellation, Captain Mulliner, which ar ago one of the brothers took some of these machines to be not inferior to that produced in any othor rived at this port recently, left Liverpool on the to Georgia to sell them for use in ginning cotton. country. The vessels which run regularly between 2d of June, and after a slow and uneventful western He attached two horses with one of his powers to a Honolulu. and San Francisco find full employment. journey, was on the morning of the 4th of July, in gin ordinarily driven by six horses, but though they A large business consists in the export of pulu, which latitude 430 23', longitude 500 15', and also in a would drive it when the gin was evenly fed and run is a kind of brown thistle-down. dense fog. Suddenly at about 1 o'clock a huge ob ning smoothly, it would be very frequently choked ject loomed up in front of the bows, proving to be and stopped. He thought he would try to improve ASPHALTUM and a small quantity of india rubber dis an enormous iceberg. The vessel tacked and bore the gin so as to overcome the difficulty, and taking solved in refined naphtha, make an adhesive cement away ill another direction. home with him two or three tnns of cotton on the not affeet�d by water.