INVENTION 



3025 



INVENTION 



hewn from a huge block of Russian granite, in 

 which lie the remains of the great Napoleon, 

 deposited there in 1840. It is one of the 

 buildings of which France is extremely proud, 

 because of the memory of the "Little Cor- 

 poral." This institution was erected by Louis 

 XIV in 1670; in 1811 it was reorganized, and 



since 1832 it has been maintained by the 

 nation. The building has accommodations for 

 6,000, but the number of inmates is much less. 

 To be entitled to its privileges, a soldier must 

 have served ten years, and he is received only 

 because of poverty or infirmity. See NAPOLEON 

 I, for illustration of tomb. 



THE STORY OF INVENTION 



NVENTION. Boys and girls of to-day, 

 and their fathers and mothers, too, seldom give 

 a thought to the source of the vast number of 

 modern conveniences they enjoy and could 

 not well do without. The wonderful facilities 

 at their command are accepted as a matter of 

 course. The civilized world is advancing at 

 such a wonderful rate that we fail to realize 

 that the commonplace of to-day was unheard 

 of only a short time ago. Middle-aged people 

 can remember when they first saw a telephone. 

 It was a wonder to them that they could talk 

 a dozen miles and hear the familiar tones of a 

 friend's voice above the sputtering and crack- 

 ling of those first undeveloped instruments. 

 The first street electric light was to them a 

 marvel a brilliant light traveling out of a 

 wire! 



When They Were Boys and Girls. To read 

 a list of common things that our fathers and 

 mothers never knew about when they were 

 young will emphasize the recent progress of 

 the world. Only a few can be named here; it 

 will afford instruction to add to the list : 



Adding machines, 



Aeroplanes, 



Aluminum kitchen 

 ware, 



Automatic telephones, 



Automobiles, 



Carbon paper, 



Cash register, 



Concrete buildings, 



Cotton-picking ma- 

 chines, 



Cream separator, 



Electric elevators, 



Electric furnaces, 

 190 



Electric stoves, 

 Electric welders, 

 Fireless cookers, 

 Gas mantles, 

 Hydroplanes, 

 Kodak films, 

 Liquid soap, 

 Mechanical stokers, 

 Motorcycles, 

 Moving pictures, 

 Oil engines, 

 Periscopes, 

 Piano players, 

 Pneumatic tires, 



Recording telephones, 

 Safety razors, 

 Sending pictures by 



telegraph, 

 Steel trains, 

 Talking machines, 

 Thermos bottles, 

 Tractors, 



Turbines, 

 Type-setting machines, 

 Vacuum cleaners, 

 Vestibuled cars, 

 Wireless telegraph, 

 Wireless telephone, 

 Wireless torpedoes, 

 Zeppelins. 



When grandfathers and grandmothers were 

 boys and girls these things were unknown: 



Acetylene, 

 Airbrakes, 

 Arc lamps, 

 Block signals, 

 Carpet sweepers, 

 Celluloid, 



Color photography, 

 Dynamite, 

 Dynamos, 

 Electric light, 

 Electric motors, 

 Electric railways, 

 Elevated railways, 

 Fountain pens, 

 Gas engines, 



Hydraulic elevators, 

 Ice machines, 

 Paraffin paper, 

 Phonographs, 

 Pictures printed in color, 

 Portland cement, 

 Rubber tires, 

 Shoe-sewing machines, 

 Skyscrapers, 

 Sleeping cars, 

 Steel boiler plates, 

 Steel ships, 

 Storage batteries, 

 Submarine cables, 

 Telephones. 



Gasoline, 



It is but a short period, as time is counted, 

 back to the days of the great-grandparents. 

 Those good people really enjoyed life, but 

 besides being without the common things 

 named above, they knew nothing about the 

 articles named below: 



Bessemer steel, 

 Bicycles, 

 Binders, 

 Corn planters, 

 Cylinder printing 

 presses, 



Daguerreotypes, 

 Electromagnets, 

 Galvanized iron, 

 Hard rubber, 

 Matches, 



