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Show or WHAT INVENTORS HAVE DONE FOB WARFARE If there be one thing more important im-portant than all others right now, it is that engineers and business men shall be immediately aroused to a clear understanding of the unbreakable link -which binds all commerce and industry to the or. ganic laws of our Nation.. Unless the Nation be rightly constituted and rightly ruled, normal and healthful business conditions are not possible as witness the desperate des-perate commercial and industrial disaster which has suddenl-- over whelmed innocent individuals and personal and corporate business of every kind throughout Europe because be-cause of this uncalled-for war. On the other hand, to show bow absolutely dependent arc the war lords themselves upon the genius and creative power of truly great men whose lives are devoted to peaceful industry, let me cite this array of historic facte ; Gunpowder Gunpowd-er was rediscovered and applied to military uses by theT chemists of Italy, France, Germany and England Eng-land between 132G and 1344. The Germans and Euglish have always been at was as to whether Bert-hold Bert-hold Schwartz, the German monk, or Roger Bacon, the English friar, is entitled to most of the credit; and this time, no doubt, they will fight the controversy to a finish But there is no manner of doubt that James Watt invented the condensing con-densing steam engine; that Robert Fulton developed and demonstrated demonstrat-ed the steamboat ; that John Ericsson Erics-son invented the screw propeller; that Samuel F. B. Morse invented the electric telegraph; that Alexander Alex-ander Graham Bell invented the telephone; that Iliram Stevens Maxim (not Hudson, who is a younger brother) invented the automatic machine gun ; that John P. Holland developed and demon, strated the submarine; that Gai-glielmo Gai-glielmo Marconi invented wireless telegraphy ; that the Wright brothers broth-ers developed and demonstrated demonstrat-ed the aeroplane, and, finally that "Henry Ford has done more than any other living man to bring the automobile and its gas engine into i universal use. All of these were civilian engineers because Cap. ! tain Ericsson retired from the Swedish army ten years before he j invented the screw propeller. oo |