Show I I I I M RY RM Superintendent Super I of Patent Office Re He Remembers members member All Al the th Models 5 Brooklyn Br Eagle I IOne One of the th most remarkable memories on record Is i that th of Ji R 1 C Gill Gil the th vet veteran veteran veteran eran superintendent of the model rooms of Washington the United States patent office at j Up to a few years ears ago the patent laws of this country required all al appl applicants applicant cant cants for patents patent to make copy of their invention and send it In with their request for for letter patent When the application was wa attended to the model was sent to the model rooms and kept on exhibition n there whether wh ther the patent was granted or refused In Inthis Inthis Inthis this way an amazing array arry of m del delhas has been gathered in Washington ansi and ansiso so quickly did they begin to grow that t ta a few years ago a new law had hud to be passed dispensing with the necessity iy for inventors to 10 t send in mo models els of their ideas Yet Y t for nearly years the models have been coming oming in ln n so that the total cumber of thOrn them th m today toda can readily be imagined d They fill l case af after after after ter case cae on floor after ater floor foor of the pat patent patent ent eat office building and its Is annex anne and to a casual visitor there thee the the task tak of I merely gazing at ab at each model is a piece 1 I of work that would require many days But Butlo to examine each Cach model del in deti detail to inquire into the workings Q of or them all alland al and wonderfully complicated things are are a large percentage of them would be a matter to drive rive most OS t ordinary men I insane insane Yet Mr MI Gill Gi has not only learned earned the all aU the models but he remembers rem each so perfectly i L that he can describe the workings working of each from memory memoir not bothering bothe to I hunt up the model itself Further nl he t can tell tel offhand the exact year the j I model was received although the mod models models I els are not chronologically arranged who the Inventor was whether er he ob oh t his patent or not not and andin in a large number of cases caes Cantell can tel some funny yarns about the success successor or failure of the inventions To thoroughly appreciate the value of Mr lf Gills Gm s memory it i should be stated that these models number almost 00 and ad that they the range ranle in intricacy from a it new flea sort of writing pen ilen en to a complicated triple expansion engine for the transAtlantic trans steamer Mr Gill himself insists insist that there is nothing Gil phenomenal n I about his memory and says ss that any an one could do Just as s well were he in the same position as as him wel self But this is because Mr r Gill is ex cx modest Any visitor isio to the model rooms can prove the wonderful memory to his own satisfaction |