Inventions in the Century

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BY WILLIAM H. DOOLITTLE
Expert and Patent Solicitor, Ex-Examiner in the Patent Office and Assistant Commissioner of Patents at Washington, Writer of Inventions, etc.
THE LINSCOTT PUBLISHING COMPANY TORONTO AND PHILADELPHIA W. & R. CHAMBERS, LIMITED LONDON AND EDINBURGH 1903
INVENTIONS IN THE CENTURY.

In treating of the subject of Inventions it is proper to distinguish them from their scientific kindred—Discoveries.
The history of inventions is the history of new and useful contrivances made by man for practical purposes. The history of scientific discoveries is the record of new things found in Nature, its laws, forces, or materials, and brought to light, as they exist, either singly, or in relation, or in combination.
Thus Galileo invented the telescope, and Newton discovered the law of gravitation. The practical use of the invention when turned to the heavenly bodies served to confirm the truth of the discovery.