How to make inventions; or, Inventing as a science and an art . claim America ; its age of scientific discovery, right after thetime of Bacon, when physical and chemical sciences grew fasterthan ever before ; its age of religious war which seems now to bepassing away, and being replaced by a tone of greater toleration;its age of the gold-mining panic; and now its age of invention is the embryo of another invention. Electric - 148 lighting, for example, begets hundreds of detail inventions andimprovements, and so with other new arts and industries. Sometimes, and especially in th
How to make inventions; or, Inventing as a science and an art . claim America ; its age of scientific discovery, right after thetime of Bacon, when physical and chemical sciences grew fasterthan ever before ; its age of religious war which seems now to bepassing away, and being replaced by a tone of greater toleration;its age of the gold-mining panic; and now its age of invention is the embryo of another invention. Electric - 148 lighting, for example, begets hundreds of detail inventions andimprovements, and so with other new arts and industries. Sometimes, and especially in the early days of the age ofinvention, several generations were occupied in the perfection ofan invention. In one generation, the mental invention is the second, the crude generic invention; and in the third, theperfected, specific form. Thus it was with the steam-engine inventor. Watt, wrote to Dr. Small, in 1770, Have you ever considered a spiral oar for that purpose (ofpropelling boats)? In 1834, Francis Pettit Smith constructed a. model boat propelled by a wooden screw, driven by a wound-upspring. Later, he built a large boat and exhibited it on a canal,using steam power. A few years later Ericsson constructed andpatented, and introduced the specific form in use at present. Prof. Houston, of the Franklin Institute, states before theBrooklyn Institute:— Great ideas or inventions can be arrangedunder three great types or classes, viz.: i. Immature or incom-plete; 2. Mature but unripe; 3. Ripe. Ideas or inventions ofthe first type produce but little effect in the world—at times,however, they tend to direct thought to certain channels andthus act as forerunners of greater and more valuable ideas. 149 Ideas of the second type are mature, but the times are unripefor them; the condition of the environment is unsuited, andtherefore, though matured and complete in themselves, like un-ripe fruit they produce no progeny for the development of theworld. Id
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