Show WORTH VAST WEALTH Valuable Ideas Now ow Lost to the tho World Utica Globe Glo e Great inventions which h in some cases c ses might have tae changed cha the Ue tenor of ot the too business world of or the tile present nr pre nt int I I day have been wantonly ly destroyed or lost though the eccentricities or dis distorted distorted distorted imagination of the inventor I Th The story SCary of af some me HIe of these the lost In Inventions Inventions Js is Interesting It is hardly twenty years since John Johll Waymouth the Wolverhampton engineer and de designer designer signer mener discovered the Ute motive of heat exhibited it in ene one of the simplest cheapest and most moat useful u tul en engines engines engines gines imaginable and then deprived the world of its benefits He had pro produced produced beforehand a round dozen of ex excellent excellent Inventions which still stUl bear his name Including ih tb the modern revolving chimney cowl and having made a large fortune he devoted himself to harnessing the ordinary beat heat of a fire and making a new power of it The idea was laughed at t by all his friends but after four yearn year of study and an ex experimenting experimenting he produced a stationary engine that gave double d uble the power of any an mechanism at about a third the cost and also o a small smell model mo el heat locomotive 1 large Jarge enough to draw a truck with a man in it He invited a committee of scientists and engineers including Professors ors Hux Huxley Huxley ley Icy and Forbes Brown and showed them that his two t o machines worked to perfection The affair made a great eat stir sUr and It proved that a great power of unlimited scope had been discovered discovered ered Waymouth was all flooded with of offers off frs fers f rs of huge huse sums for his invention but forno tor no apparent nt reason except perhaps the alleged madness JJ of genius he absolutely ab refused ed to either bring it out himself hims ll or sell the secret He announced himself satisfied with the th triumph of the invention and before his death de th a year later he destroyed all the papers and an plans plane explaining the system and removed the essential parts of the two engines These en engines ennes engines gines nes are arc still stUl possessed ses by his bis heirs but nobody has been able to make anything of thorn Still sun stranger was the famous loss lose of ot the recipe for the manufacture of diamonds some ome fifteen years age ao Herbert Warner who alone discovered and held beld the secret of diamond making did note not live to wreck the diamond industry ln as pee peo people pie thought he would and the circum circumstances circumstances stances of the loss were mysterious and tragic Inferior diamonds can still be bo produced artificially but only at a cost of about ten times their Value Warner after years years of experimenting experimenting was wa able to turn out a genii genuine genuIne ine the diamond of or large size else and of the first water at the cost of a small fran frac fraction tion of the complete stones worth S 3 He like Waymouth WaY of heat power fame Came manufactured his h diamonds be before before before fore an audience of scientists ts and pro procured procured procured cured three fine fins stones tones which were tested and pronounced faultless s Two of them are still in existence and are the greatest curiosity the jewel world has haa ha ever eYer seen But flat within a fortnight of this triumph before any of the new pew stones were put on the te market War Warner Warner ner ncr utterly disappeared from his house housein in Harley street London leaving no trace whatever So complete was his disappearance that from that day to this not the smallest t explanation has bas been hit upon Then there is 18 the lost secret se ret of the wonderful new metal called culled Which would certainly have been worth many millions ster sterling sterling ling to the nation and ad a d the inventor Grantley Adams discovered covered dl It just eight years ago and during its short life it was one of the greatest won wonders wonders ders dens of the e science and aad commerce world It was sheer vanity that kept Grant Finlay from giving to the world the benefit beneat b of his bis invention for tor the total abolition of f smoke He evolved a n sirs sim simple pie p by which 1 any Uy ft e or light could be e made tn de to It own car carbon bon boa and he d the be usefulness of ot the invention 1 times he obstinately refused to put it iton Iton iton on the market or sell the secret of it His own house bou e just outside Glasgow Glasow was fitted with the system which did not pot cost him 30 shillings for the entire building and no jot of ot smoke was as ever eer emitted there All AU his f es consumed their nn o n f and he ho fond of showing shoeing the efficiency of his to guests but n never naver ver would he explain the working of it It and he died two years ago carrying his secret with him to the grave gra va A l week before his death he had all th lh e apparatus stripped from fr 1 his house and au destroyed 1 7 c 1 r c c i |