Show romances of progress by albert payson terhune PETER COOPER and the M A curious and fearsome eight g ht of object tili which aich made women and d set children to screaming its way through the streeta of on day in 1803 1803 it A Is called steam locomotive and a four wheeled led carriage consisted 0 of the bearing then new high ginesa pressure saure en six foot boiler baller inch a single 61 cylinder which and a great stack from gushed a torrent of black moke smoke and fire guiding this weird contrivance was as a plain featured man richard when the practical use ot of steam was still a new thing sir isaac newton bad prophesied that some adny this odd power would propel wagons tak ing 1139 the place of aci b ses raes but no one took much stock ilithe in abe forecast near ly IY years had passed before the idea iab as taken up then in 1769 a scientist by name made a road wagon driven drivel by steam dut but it IL wa was not 1 and was regarded larded re merely as a plaything it frightened horses so badly that a man with a red rag was via aldays sent on ahead of it to warn riders and drivers fifteen years later a british inventor murdock made a second of these steam road wagons this too was a failure doth both cuenot s and murdock a devices were more the ancestors ane estora of the automobile than of the locomotive it was not until 1800 that the real father of the locomotive made his first test along thia this line lie ile was tre vl thick and be he had already made a reputation by adding important improvements prove ments to valta atts steam engine besides being a giant in stature was the strong man of L u who made M cornwall Corny kall he ve waa was first lopomo e cham plou tax j tive ig er wrestler and weight lifter of the district although he waa was too to acquire education be he waa was a mechanical ch genius lie ile perfected it high pressure conducting non steam ngone and made the first locomotive this waa was a rickety noisy clumsy acala nevertheless it was the forerunner of every locomotive since made it could carry in a eort sort of chaise 15 passengers described it in hie his application for a patent as a steam engine in a propelling carriage dut but after proving the practicability of his disc discovery ortry was c corn belled to give up the idea of making it popular the public at largo large sneered at it called it a freak and predicted that it would come to nothing never th eless during the next quarter cen tury other men added at timea times tittle little 1 who put harness on steam br by little to the devices effectiveness effectIve nesi and in 1822 an engh miner george Stephe SteP benson neon succeeded in making t the h e first locomotive along modern mo d e m lines lin e e in 1825 the first rall ralland roid w with 1 t holle one ot of hia his locomotives drawing a train over its tracks waa was opened this was ae an epoch mating making event in t the he history of progress tho the public was faced re e luct antly to admit th that at t the h an invention had come to stay to E england ng 1 coid belongs the credit of this wonderful invention peter cooper was a self made new yorker born in new york city in 1791 he lie bad had little more education than did As a boy he worked for hia his fataei at making hats when 17 he learned the coach making trade this later acquirement was destined later to be of use to him along a broader line of endeavor enu eavor lie liko like was a natural inventor A cloth shearing earing ob machine a patent glue and slid many other unique anve inventions til s started him on the road to fortune for lie lae bad had already won fame as a t man nan of original ideas when the question tion of the locomotives importation came up cooper who had recently entered the iron business in bl maryland aryland at once set to work on plans of ot Ms his own along this line his tits knowledge of coach making as well welt as his trend for inanity and natural deftness came to hia his aid in 1830 1930 he built from doi d signs agn a of hia his own making the first lotom thumb en co motive ever gine ni that th saved manufactured in road hie this country the baltimore ohio railroad was as building and the road roads a promoters pro motors were tc Is grave doubt aa as to whether there would be a reasonable profit on their investment cooper demonstrated the possibility at of build ing railroads on small capital and saved the baltimore ohio from bankruptcy ilia first locomotive waa was called the tom thumb and it led the way tor for americas supremacy in engine building nor was this the greatest service peter cooper rendered to his country remembering how hard he had been forced to struggle la in order to gain gala an education and instruction along indus trial lines he resolved that nw now york ers ero of the future should have an easier easler method of obtaining these than any be himself had known with this end in view bo he built and a nd endowed in 1857 the great building known wn as a a cooper union for the providing ng of free teaching in art and science and free reading room and library for the people I 1 ALEXANDER GRAHAM GRA H A m B BELL E LL ft the man who made voice travel 1000 miles A big bearded farmer like youth of 21 24 found himself one day in 1871 the bero hero of brant county canada he ile was alexander graham bell scot who had moved from edinburgh to the dominion the previous year lie ile hail bal invented a contrivance by bir which human speech could be carried across a bingle single wire and transmitted with perfect distinctness for a considerable distance thie this telephone as young hell dell called hia his invention was regarded as a wonderful and highly amusing toy nothing more the country folk turned out by hundreds to witness the first experiment A wire bad been stretched from the house honse of delia belle father in the suburbs to the telegraph office in the city of brantford two and a half miles away the test was sue dell bell was praised though some of the graver canadian scota scots thought he might far better have pent spent the time on something really useful he ile sent ent next year to boston to ac capt a professorship in the university there coln boyhood he had bad devoted himself to a t tem devised by bla his fatter latter for te achIlAS deaf mute mutes to communicate with eatch co other and with the outer rid this was his intended life lite corb worb although as a boy be had longed to be b a musical corn com poser and bad had with difficulty been persuaded by his father to give up the ambition hell bell when a mere lad conceived the ida lda of forming a BY teni tm of harmonic telegraphy he ile found that bound s could be carried over wires that were joined to a galvanic battery and that by adjusting a sol sot of reeds at one end of the line of bibra j lion with another at tho the opposite end I 1 noises on one set get could be reproduced j by the other thue thus each could be both a t transmitter and receiver of notes note a from thia this it was but a step to applying P plying the same idea to spoken words love and the k and aaa the telephone telephone in a crude formia form was wa the result soon after prof bell moved to boa BOB ton a wealthy cambridge gambridge man hubbard by name sent hta his deaf daughter to him for vocal instruction an engagement ga gement between pupil and teacher soon followed d miss hubbard and her father became deeply interested in the telephone and bell was induced early in 1876 to patent it it bir hubbard II was placed la in chargi of the massachusetts exhibit at tre tte centennial exposition la in philadelphia he lie wanted bell to place before the people ic au th the 1 massachusetts building ble bis man mar clone scientific toy but bell liell did not care to do this probably falling failing to realize the importance of such a step miss hubbard added her plea to her fathers father a when all other means failed she asked the lantor neator nf ator to come to the station to see b r off oft for philadelphia ae As she was about to board the train ehe she burst into tears and again begged her sweet heart to come to the quaker city with her he lie elded ylI ded anil and the telephone home appan as well an hs 1 luggage was shipped to him by the next train hut but only half bait the battle was woo won before the telephone could be exhibited a committee must pass on ite its merits it was late in the afternoon when the tired committeemen reached lie the dell bell invention they were on the point of deciding sich a toy did not deserve a place in to ko dignified an ex position when dom pedro emperor of brazil chanced to wander into the committee room the emperor rushed over to bell dell shook bands hands effusively with him and asked a number of questions concerning tho telephone which he bad seen during a recent visit to boston jie lie vent u ent on to insist that hell bell let him talk through it at once accordingly According ir Vot enate and in ali li alln alimi of shakespeare back aid forth to each other across a i limited stretch of wire until the for iner mer was tired of the plaything the imperial approval bad had turned the tide of fortune for alexander bell the committee promptly decided thai that a contrivance which could so delight a real live emper emperor turns fortunes scale or w as worthy of putting before th e public the telephone I 1 was as accepted d and attracted multitudes multitude a of eager iris vi igors throughout the course of the centennial hut before kelt bell could put it to practical use a number of other men claimed credit for similar anven tlona and for years the light waged in the courts at length hell dell on it was eald said at one time ume that he r vre miss all II aa as a ng when bhe married him the royalty rights on the telephone those these rights of course have accumulated to a tabu loua IOUs sum despite the wealth his inventions have brought him pro bell 11 still devotes himself to the welfare aduca tion and advancement of deaf mates whose former pitiable condition he has improved as vastly as bis his wore more famous device haa has enlarged the scope of the human voice to the efforts of a deaf girl who bad had sublime faith la in her sweetheart sI genius the world owes the dell bell telephone it A ate A AtA |