BRIDGING THE HUDSON AT POTTORREE1'STE.1 likafft NET TA wA rAP. OF% Mg 00.1 A vf Honor the Inventor. pend- upon the men who wear their lives out in mak ing the practical application of an idea to which their genius has given birth. A few more efforts and the thousand or so of geniuses and cranks miscalled 'the patent car coupler fiends' but who are really angels in disguise will give us a car coupler that an Gen. Charles P. Stone. the United States army in 1864 and in 1870 accepted a position under the Khedive of Egypt. His work in re organizing the Egyptian forces received the highest praise. He resigned his commission in 1883. He was offered the command of the English expedition against El Idahdi but refused it as he could not obtain a suf ficient allowance of forces. His work as engineer and director of the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty on Bedlow's Island in New York Harbor won him con siderable notoriety. This was the last work of his life being completed but a few months before his death. A Chance for the Inventors. 'The man who will invent a connection for bell ropes which will not break glass can make a fortune' enormous amount of plate Mass each year by break, scientific american, 1887-02-05
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