How to Succeed as an Inventor

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usy housewife, not content with the drudgery incident to her household cares, may devise a means or article which will lighten her task, and prove a blessing to her sisters. The plodding clerk, without an iota of mechanical knowledge, may perfect a system or an offi

and are we not apt to say with him that there appears to be "nothing new under the sun"? Civilization begets new needs and wants; opportunities for new invention are multiplying

glorious, but points the man of genius of today in an unswerving manner to the possibilities which the future holds, and which are vastly greater than anything which has gone before. Each age finds the people conv

ine, that we heard about when we were children,

and Orville Wright, who at this writing have just broken all records for Aeroplanes, or "machines heavier than

ident to his machine, which resulted in the death of Lieutenant Selfridge, of the U.S. Army, and severe i

if they made a speed of eight to ten miles per hour, the chances are that within the

igible balloons." This type of airships will undoubtedly be superseded by the "Aeroplane," or the "Helicopter." The principal inventors

as fully equipped with the gas for lighting and heating which he discovered and brought to practical use. It is also said that "while Murdock resided in Cornwall he made gas from every substance he could think of, and had bladders fille

ught with bows and arrows, sling shots and battering rams! While the Tower of Babel was possibly the first "skyscraper," it did not contain express elevators, hot and cold water, telephones, call boxes, yale locks, granolithic floors, fire escapes, transom lifts, automatic sprinklers, stationary wash stands, water closets, steam or hot water heat, electric and gas lights, push buttons, s

uld have your photograph taken and shown in Boston, all by and through an electric wire! The Telephote may transmit light and color a

tter. Do we know better? One hundred years from now, possibly, our great, great-grandchildren will consider us

ve a great aim, and to possess the ap