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Show GREAT INVENTION The men in the smoking compart- j i ment were arguing about great in- i 1 ventors. One said Stephenson, who , invented the locomotive and made I fast travel possible, was the great-! great-! est. Another declared it was the I man who invented the compass. which enabled man to navigate the seas. Another spoke up for Edison. Still another for the Wrights. Finally, Final-ly, one of them turned to a little man who had remained silent. "What do you think?" "Well," he said with a smile, "the man who invented interest was no fool." |