AN ENGINEER TAUGHT BY AN INSECT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 123, 26 May 1891, Page 4

AN ENGINEER TAUGHT BY AN INSECT.

, 'it has town paid that' the operations of tbe ',' flpjuer Bqg^wted tbe arW of spinning and . weWcg to man. Tbtt may W aoubtfal, but U if'^tttto certain tbat to a kin* Irocd an ingept Wat due tbe invention of a machine inetrn- ; nwntarin'aoiitnplißbiog one of tbe most •iopendoiM works of modem Unasii—the ezi. aavalion of tha Tbaoow touel, ;M«rkleam--:>y, hard Bionel, tbe great; eogineer, was sending «m day, about three quarters oj, a oen- ; 4qrjrAgo, in,R abipyard, watobiog the move* ajoeots ol ad animal known at the naval ' wwd worm, when a brilliant thought aqdflenlf oeb»u[recl to biiu. He saw tbat this oteartr* N«l its way into the pieoe of wood oboq which H nu operating, by means of a extraordinary meobanioal apparatus, i /AookioV at the animal Attentively through *, aiieroioope, he , found tbat r it was -j .oowrti in front with a pair of valvnlar ' ■ «belli; ith»t with ita iP«» " • P»*ob»Be, , ssS»«ooJtt«nl<»t6d » rotwy motion and a < forward JittwiUe to tha valves, wbiob noting K anoo tba moilike ft gimlet, penetrated,i\» :'i;.inUitiMi:-md tbat, as. the /gwttolMj of •wood wers.loosened they pMsed throjigh » flasare into tbe foot mi tbeaoo tbroUfib (he body •! the borer to its mouth where ttpfiftfm expend' " Here,". said Bronel to jiirii«9lf, J*i» tbe sort of thing { want. 1 f Oan I rewofluce it in an artificial:form?" >T fie forthwith iak to woik, and the final result !.of bil'labourK, after many failures, was the i<" timow Siring shield, with which the Thames /w;<«ibaei was ezea^ated. This Btory was told by if^Brfcnel^'bißißiU; and these is no reason to MM Iti truths Tha keen observer can draw autal lessona from the humblest of tbe