Schools of Invention.
The school of invention has not yet been established, but its germ is growing in the mechanical schools. This school, according to Hon. W. H. Ruffner, in Va. Ed. Journal, will educate men, and women too, for the special career of inventing new things. Why not? We already have something closely analogous in schools of design, where the pupil is trained to invent new forms or patterns, chiefly of an artistic or decorative character. The same idea will be applied to the invention of machinery, or improvements in machinery, or the adaptation of machinery to the accomplishment of special ends. Inventions usually spring from individuals striving to lighten their own labor, or from some idea entering the brain of a genius. But we shall have professional inventors who will be called on to contrive original devices, and his success will depend on the sound and practical character of his prescriptions.
Proposed Exhibition of Bathing Appliances.
The Board of Health of this city has recently been notified that a Balneological Exhibition, to illustrate the various systems of bathing, bath appliances, and kindred matters, is to be held in Frankfort-On-Main, Germany, next summer. The exhibition will last from May to September, 1881.
H. H. Heinrich, No. 41 Maiden Lane, New York, Inventor Patentee, and Sole Manufacturer of the Self-Adjusting Chronometer Balance, which is not affected by "extremes of high and low temperatures, as fully demonstrated by a six months' test at the Naval Observatory at Washington, D. C., showing results in temperatures from 134° down to 18°, of 5-10 of a second only, unparalleled in the history of horology and certified to by Theo F. Kone. Esq., Commander U. S. N. in charge of the Observatory. Mr. Heinrich is a practical working mechanic and adjuster of marine and pocket chronometers to positions and temperatures, and is now prepared to apply his new balance wheel to any fine timekeeping instrument, either for public or private use, he also repairs marine and pocket chronometers, as well as all kinds of complicated watches, broken or lost parts made new and adjusted. Mr. Heinrich was connected for many years with the principal manufacturers of England, Geneva and Locle, Switzerland, and for the last fifteen years in the United States, and very recently with Messrs. Tiffany & Co., of Union Square, New York. Shipowners, captains naval and army officers, railroad and telegraph officials, physicians and horsemen, and all others wanting true time, should send to him. Fine watches of the principal manufacturers, for whom he is their agent, constantly on hand. His office is connected by electric wires with the Naval Observatory's astronomical clock, through the Western Union Telegraph, thus giving him daily New York's mean time. Many years ago the British Government made an offer of £6,000 for a chronometer for her navy, keeping better time than the ones in use, but no European horologist ever discovered the sequel which Mr. Heinrich has now worked out to perfection, overcoming the extremes, as stated above. With him is connected Mr. John P. Krugler for thirty years connected with the trade as salesman.—Adv.