The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 27, 1917, Page 2, Image 2
GERMAN GENIUS IMAGINARY.
World Yet to Hear of Mighty Teutonic
Achievements.
During the last few months I have
heard the Germans arraigned as blatant
boorish, barbarous, yet in nearly
every case the speakers suffixed to
their invectives such an expression
as "But when it comes to brains you
will have to hand it to them; they
have made science.
What, hand it to them? What
epoch-making invention or discovery
is of German origin?except a stamp
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many?" Their scientists have kicked
up a fair amount of spray as they
gamboled in their pool, but the world
has yet to hear of a mighty Teutonic
splash. Time and again French,
English, American, Spanish and Italian
inventors and discoverers have
sent tidal waves around the globe.
Let us now be specific.
The steam engine has been called
the greatest of all inventions; it broke
the shackles from slaves; it mingled
the marts of the world! It made
neighbors of the antipodes. Newcomen,
a native of Devonshire, obtained
the patent for the first partially
successful steam engine; Watt,
a Scotchman, perfected it; Cuynot,
Murdoch, and Trevitick brought forward
the locomotive, not on German
soil; Stephenson, an Englshman, was
the first to apply the locomotive steam
engine to railways for passenger
traffic; France, England, and America
applied it to navigation. When
all had been completed Germany pull
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der Kaiser!" and tagged it "Made in
Germany."
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Germans X^ver Invented These.
The telegraph which brings us the
daily history of the world was invented
by an American, Professor Morse,
who also suggested the Atlantic cable,
which was subsequently laid by that
American merchant-scientist, Cyrus
Field, assisted in "mooring the New
World alongside of the Old" by Lord
Kelvin, the prince of physicists, a
British subject. Graham BelL the
chief inventor of the telephone, was
born in Scotland and grew to fame
in America. A young Italian, Marconi,
gave Vireless telegraphy to the
world. The House of the Hohenzollern
has made great use of these inventions
in telling Great Britain,
America and Italy in arrogant verl
biage what the Vaterland has done
for the benighted peoples of the
earth.
Cyrus McCormick, a native of West
Virginia, produced the reaping machine
which harvests the food of the
world; Meikle, of England, brought
forth the threshing machine; thus
was famine banished. Eli Whitney,
of Massachusetts parentage, invented
the cotton gin; Hargraves, an Englishman,
made the spinning-jennv;
Arkwright, also English, supplied its
efficiency with his famous spinning
frame; the Englishman Kay introduced
the fly shuttle in weaving; Brunei,
who devised the knitting machine,
and Cartwright, inventor of the pow
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er loom, were cnusu cuucuo. muc
was the world clothed.
Although Germany is militaristic
and worships at the shrine of Mars,
what votive offering has she made
to the god of war? It was not she
who contributed guncotton, gun powder,
smokeless powder, percussion
cap, nitroglycerine, dynamite, torpedo,
shrapnel, automatic .cannon, magazine
rifle, breech loading gun, Gatling
gun, revolver, Maxim silencer,
hammerless gun, gunboat, inronclad
battery or ship, armor plate, revolving
turret, submarine or airplanes.
No German Made These.
Since Germany borrowed her military
appliances from other nations,
we are not surprised that she obtained
her devices of prosperity from the
same source. She did not produce
the first aniline dye, vulcanized rubber,
liquid gases, gas engine, water
gas, thermometer, barometer, pianoforte,
barbed wire, cut nails, plate
glass, circular saw, cable car, electric
car, sleeping car, air brake, bicycle,
automobile, pneumatic tire, sewing
machine, typewriter, calculating machine,
cash register, steel writing pen,
et cetera ad infinitum.
The greatest thing Germany has
done is to falsely advertise herself as
the light of the world. No son of
hers invented the electric light, tne
gas light, the acetylene light, the kerosene
light, the searchlight, the flashlight,
the safety lamp, the candle dip
or the friction match. America, England,
France and other "untutored
nations" performed these tasks. The
sun, moon and stars are the only
lights left for Germany's contention,
and, according to the Mosaic account,
the Lord and not the Kaiser made
and placed them in the firmament, j
Daguerre, a Frenchman, presented
us with photography. Our own Edison
brought forth the motion picture
to delight and instruct the eye and
the phonograph to please and teach
the ear. The Germans enjoy our
reels and records, and, lifting high
their steins, drink a prolonged toast
to the achievements of the Vater
land. ''Deutschland uber Allies."
Galileo, who first saw the heavens
with a telescope, was an Italian. The
men who first saw the earth and its
teeming life with a microscope were
not cf German origin. Yet many telescopes
and microscopes in our colleges
being marked "Made in Germany"
have led students to believe
that these wonderful instruments
were devised by German brain. The
Germans are mechanics, not inventors.
These Weren't Teutons.
By the use of the compound microscope
Pasteur, the French biologist,
as early as 1857, demonstrated a
connection between microscopic organism
and disease. This was nine
years before Dr. Koch, the German
hail ororliiotorl Tn this
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connection the important antiseptic
surgery of Dr. Lister, of England,
should be recorded. Edward Jenner,
the discoverer of vaccination; and
Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation
of blood, were Englishmen. An
American taught the world the use
of anaesthetics. Our dentists excel
all others. They are employed by.
many crowned heads?even the kaiser
has his.
The Teutons have not shown the
engineering skill of the French, who
cut the Suez canal, or of the Americans,
who joined the Atlantic and
the Pacific at Panama. The decimal
or metric system, by which the Germans
make their measurements is a
gift from France. The method by
which they make their steel is that
of Sir Henry Bessemer, of England.
Many of the fruits and vegetables, of
which they eat an enormous quantity,
were brought forth by our own
peerless Burbank. No wonder that
the Germans can "goose-step" so high
for what else have they practiced?
Lavoisier, the father of modern
chemistry, was a Frenchman; Linnaeus.'
thp founder of botanv. was
of Swedish origin. To Hutton, of
England, we are indebted for geology;
to Maury, of Virginia, for the
physiography of the sea; to Descartes
of French parentage, for analytical
geometry; to Comte, of France, for
sociology; to Germany for sauerkraut
and pretzels. Germany has not contributed
her quota toward the world's
advancement. How she struts in her
foreign plumage! She is neither inventive,
resourceful nor original.
She has made no geographical discoveries
of importance. Her neighbors
have. What role did she play
in discovering various portiops of the
New World? Did she establish any
colonies? I thank God she did not.
Her sons did.not compose the crew
of Magellan's fleet, the first to circumnavigate
the globe. A German
did not discover the North Pole, nor
lead the way toward the South Pole.
It is high time to cease talking of
Germany's achievements unless one
wishes to indulge in satire.
History and study will reveal that
the world's greatest teacher, scientist,
inventor, discoverer, statesman, general,
philosopher, preacher, painter,
poet, architect, novelist, or singer was
not "made in Germany."?Townes
R. Leigh, professor of chemistry,
Georgetown college, in Montgomery
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