Show USEFUL INVENTIONS A Very Interesting Chronological Record om thin Worth Reading Air guns were first made by Guhr In Germany Ger-many in 1G33 and the Invention is also credited to Shaw of America in 1815 Breechloading guns were invented by Thornton and Hall in 1811 Brccchload mg cannon were used by the Turks in 1855 The great anzcsthelic chloroform vas discovered by Guthrie 1831 and was first employed in surgical operations in 1MB The first electric telegraph line waslaid in Switzerland by Losage in 1783 tho Morse transmitter was invented in 1837 Wooden railroads were built in England in 1602 iron rails were first used m 1789 tbe first iron railroad was laid in America in 1837 The magnifying lens is believed to havo been known to tho ancients but in modern times was brought into uso by Roger Bacon in 1262 The first carpets madoin Europe were manufacturedrin France in 1004 in imitation imita-tion of some which had been brought from Turkey Brass pins wero first made by the Saracens Sara-cens in Spain in AD 800 were brought to England by Catharine of Arragon wife of Henry VIII Gunpowder was known to the Chinese 2000 B C to the Hindoos 335 B C Its European invention ia credited to Roger Bacon about 1281 The first electric light was the invention of Stalte and Petrio in 184G but scores of men have sincemade improvements and adapted it to popular use |