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l inventors which should be equally as famous and whose inventions will, probably, on the average, return larger proportionate profits to their owners than have a great many of the prominent ones already listed. The writer has in mind small inventions, such as, for instance, Mrs. Pott's Sad Iron; the De Long Hook and Eye; the Gillette Safety Razor; Enterprise Meat Chopper; Junoform Bust Form; Push-point Pencil; Bromo Seltzer; Morr

fortune. The inventor of the President Suspender is said to have collected over fifty thousand dollars last year in royalties on the sales of over two hundred thousand dozen pairs of his suspenders. Miss Wolfe, the i

s patents of over thirty thousand dollars. It is said that the inventor of the new-style "pay-as-you-enter" street car will receive a large royalty on every car of that style used in

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cars by wind?" and when informed that in effect that was what was contemplated, remarked that he had no time for fools. Sometime afterward when, through the support of Andrew Carnegie and several ot

ype Company has paid out twenty millions of dollars in dividends in fourteen years. The romance of the invention of the linotype brings out in glarin

tory at $2.00 per week. Making cigars by hand seemed to him a poor way of doing it, so he began experimenting on his own account, and four years later he had a machine to do the work. He sold this machine for $6,000 cash, and immediately started on a new one, which in place of selli

tered a rubber house in Philadelphia and began experimenting in India rubber. By chance one day a little rubber mixed with sulphur fell on a stove, and he at once realized what might be accomplished by what is now known as vulcanization. To carry on his experiments he was required to pawn the scho

book which has recently come out, "The Life of Thomas A. Edison," is well worth purchasing and reading. The public press reported he had w

dependent financially from the roy

ompany is the history of an infinitesim

have been paid $10,000,000 in

his invention of Bromo-Seltzer. Likewise Mennen, of talcum p

his "Straw Stacker" patents, it is said,

lumes, but it would be a story with t

e so successful emphasizes the fact that inventors, to succeed, must not

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