America Abroad | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 7, 1879

America Abroad.

It appears from the following item clipped from the New York Sun, that fifteen inventions originating in America, and these to be counted among the great inventions of the age, have been adopted all over the world. We doubt if the world is so largely indebted to any other nation for helps in the line of its modern civilization and progress. These triumphs of American genius reveal the secret of the rapid advancement of this nation, which caused John to say as he viewed it, that it was “coming up.”—

“An English journal frankly gives credit to American genius for at least fifteen inventions and discoveries, which, it says, have been adopted all over the world. These triumphs of American genius are thus enumerated: First, the cotton gin; second, the planing machine; third, the grass mower and grain reaper; fourth, the rotary printing press; fifth, navigation by steam; sixth, hot air or caloric engine; seventh, the sewing machine; eighth, the india rubber industry; ninth, the machine manufacture of horseshoes; tenth, the sand blast for carving; eleventh, the gauge lathe; twelfth, the grain elevator; thirteenth, artificial ice manufacture on a large scale; fourteenth, the electro-magnet and its practical application; fifteenth, the composing machine for printers.

“It is not often that American achievements in this direction receive due credit from such a source.”