Show THE FRUITS or OF PROMISED REWARD dally llod in ili america has become if n series of contacts with the words worda patent and patent pend lug ing they marlc mark the way 0 of mil lions of americans as they turn on oil a light sh shave aye drive to work telephone write a letter listen to the radio occasionally fly about the country and see motion pictures common but seldom noticed words relate to some part if not nil fill of most appliances and gadgets that make possible the modern way of life they are silent police that warn of the right of the originator to prevent exploitation by others invention is a field field of pioneering that remains ns as a frontier now that our geographical frontiers tire are extinct the individual leads on oil tills frontier as on oil those of old for more ideas still come from the garrets and workshops of individuals bals than from the industrial laboratories ora oratories either largo large or small and who of us can call say what new and of inventions are coming in ili tho the future to bring us more and better living making new industries and now new jobs |