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Show Invention as a Business. Commenting on a recent urtlclo whose writer laments that mom persons per-sons do not tako up inventing as u regulnr business, tho Electric Kovlew (Loudon) hJs: "Wo doubt whether Inventing In tho highest sense can be mado a business to be lenrnpd by anybody, any-body, inventors aro born, not made. Our own country Is not lacking In the dlvlno Inspiration, If wo are tq Judge by tho numbor of patents applied for; a different conclusion mlglit ho arrived ar-rived nt If wo wero to Judgo by tho quality. America appears to bo tho special breeding ground of tho Inventor. Inven-tor. The peculiar mixture of all races In that fortunate land appears to havo produced n kind of superman who alone Is capable of creating such diabolical dia-bolical Inventions ns tho cash regis tor and the automatic telephone exchange." |