INDEX

Acetylene gas, [16], [89]
Action of patent office, [125]
Advertising for agents, [167]
Advertising campaign, [173]
How to start an, [179]
Advertising, classified, [169]
Displayed, [177]
Stereotyped copy, [178]
Advertising an inventor’s job, [178]
Advertising patent attorneys, [48], [113]
Advertising versus publicity, [175]
Aeroplane, [43]
Inventing, [215]
State of the art of, [52]
Agent, manufacturer’s, [170]
Agents, advertising for, [167]
Selling through sales, [171]
Agreement, form of an invention, [133]
Air brake, invention of the, [205]
Alternating current generator, [77]
Alloys, some useful, [240]
Aluminum, [16], [89]
Amending the specification and claims, [118], [125]
Ammeter, [83]
Appendices, [229]
Applying for a patent, [117]
Archives of patent office, [126]
Arc lamps, [79]
Assignment, patent, [134], [217]
Atoms and molecules, [61]
Attorneys, advertising patent, [48]
Automobile, invention of the, [209]

Ball bearings, [61]
Band saw, [158]
Battery, [76]
Bell, Alexander, telephone inventor, [206]
Bell telephone, [56], [206]
Bentley and Knight, trolley line inventors, [211]
Berliner, Emile, graphophone inventor, [207]
Bessemer, Henry, inventor of cheap steel process, [204]
Board of examiners-in-chief, [127]
Book,
of account, [140]
on electro-chemistry, [90]
of mechanical movements, [69]
Minute, [141]
on modern views of electricity, [75]
on Physics, [69]
Stock certificate, [141]
Stock ledger, [142]
Stock transfer, [141]
on Chemistry, [88]
on Wireless, [82]
Bourseul, Charles, telephone inventor, [205]
Branca, steam turbine inventor, [209]
Brokers who advertise, [136]
Brush, dynamo inventor, [46]
Buffing machine, [156]
Bullock, printing press inventor, [203]
Business ability in inventing, [131]
Buying machine tools, [150]

Calcium carbide, [16], [89]
Carborundum, [16], [89]
Carré, Ferdinand, ice machine inventor, [204]
Capital, how to enlist, [135]
Stock, [139]
of a stock company, [138]
Cardboard models, uses of, [42]
Casting in brass and iron, [110]
Castings compared with wood, [237]
Caveats, [217]
Certificate of incorporation, [139]
Chemical apparatus, [87]
Chemicals and their common names, [249]
Chemical compounds, inventing, [14]
Chemical elements and their symbols, [248]
Chemical equipment for experimenting, [86]
Chemical inventions, ideas for, [14]
Chemistry, how to experiment, [84]
First book on, [7]
Inventions in, [59]
Circularizing, [169]
Claims, amending patent, [118], [125]
Patent, [49], [117], [122]
Coal tar colors, [89]
Collins, A. Frederick, wireless telephone inventor, [215]
Commissioner of Patents, [49], [116], [125], [127], [218]
Company, see [stock company], [138]
Conferences of associates, [167]
Contracts, about signing, [137]
Copyrights, [221]
Corporation, outfit needed by, [141]
Corporate seal, [142]
Corporation, see [stock company], [138]
Correspondent, [47]
Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, [127]
Cross-sectional drawings, [21]
Current electricity, [74-76]

Daft, Leo, trolley line inventor, [211]
Davenport, Thomas, electric railway inventor, [211]
Davy, safety lamp inventor, [5]
Deductive proof, [6]
De Laval, steam turbine inventor, [209]
Depreciation of machinery, [164]
Design patents, [216]
Diagrams, how to make electrical, [39]
Discoveries, accidental, [4]
Discovery of vulcanized rubber, [4]
Direct current, [76]
Drawing a box, [22]
Drawing, free hand, [19]
Isometric ellipse, [32]
Mechanical, [19]
Drawing paper, isometric, [26]
How to make isometric, [27]
Drawing in perspective, simple way, [26]
Drawing a steam engine, [22]
Drawing tools needed, [29]
Drawings, cross-sectional, [21]
Detailed, [21]
How to letter them, [36]
How to make simple working, [20]
How to shade them, [36]
Isometric, [122]
in perspective, isometric, [20], [25], [26]
Rules for patent, [117]
Scale, [19-21]
Some aids to, [40]
Tools for making simple, [19]
Working, [19]
Drill press, hand, [103]
Pillar type, [153]
Dynamo electric machine, [45]
Dynamo and motor, invention of the, [205]

Eastman, Charles, kodak inventor, [131], [208]
Edison, [5], [46], [131], [180], [206], [207], [210], [213]
Efficiency in manufacture, [147]
Electric,
Alternating current, [77]
Battery, [88]
Bell, [13]
Block signal system, [58]
Condenser, [75]
Current, [76]
Direct current, [76]
Furnace, [88]
Induction, [75]
Interrupted direct current, [76]
Locomotive, invention of the, [212]
Motors, individual, [157]
Power, [148]
Pulsating direct current, [76]
Railway, invention of the, [211]
Smelting, [89]
Waves, [75]
Electrical,
Diagrams, how to make, [39]
Equipment for experimenting, [82]
Invention ideas, for, [11]
Symbols, how to make, [36]
Symbols, terms and formulas, [242]
Units, [242]
Electricity, current, [74]
Forms of, [74]
How to experiment with, [74]
Static, [74-75]
Electro-chemical inventions, ideas for, [15]
Electro-chemistry, how to experiment with, [88]
Inventions in, [59], [89]
Electrolysis, [89]
Electromagnet, [13], [78]
Plunger, [79]
Waves, [79]
Electro-mechanical devices, [80]
Electro-mechanical inventions, ideas for, [13]
Electroplating, [88]
Electrotyping, [88]
Electrolytic repairing of copper, [16], [89]
Ellipse, drawing an, [32-34]
Employee’s patent agreement, [99]
Energy, [59]
Energy,
Forms of, [61]
of motion, [60]
of position, [60]
Ether, [75]
Energy of, [62]
Evidence of conception, [18], [113]
Examiner of interferences, [126]
Examiner, patent office, [50]
Experiment, how to, [58]
With machines, how to, [59]
Working out ideas by, [7]
With electro-chemistry, how to, [88]
Experimenting, value of, [7]
Experts, technical patent, [128]

Faraday, dynamo inventor, [3], [45]
Flying machine, helicopter, [94]
Follow-up letters, [170]
Foreign patents,
Dominion of Canada, Great Britain, [224]
France and Colonies, Germany and Colonies, Austria and Hungary, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Russia, Denmark, [225]
Norway and Sweden, Switzerland, Portugal and Turkey, [226]
Holland, India, Australian Commonwealth, Japan and China, Africa, Central America, West Indies, South America, [226]
Fulton, Robert, steamboat inventor, [202]
Ford, Henry, greatest automobile manufacturer in the world, [210]
Free-hand drawing, [19]
Friction, reducing, [236]
Work against, [61]
Finishing your product, [162]

Gas engine, invention of the, [204]
Gas furnace, [150]
Gears and gearing, [238]
Genius versus college professors, [5]
Government monopoly, [112], [127]
Gramme, dynamo inventor, [205]
Graphophone, invention of the, [207]
Grinder, [151]
Gyro-compass, [13], [18]
Gyro-motor for aeroplane, [43]

Hall of Fame, New York University, [203]
Progress and civilization, [203]
Heat, [61]
Helicopter, flying machine, [94]
Hero, steam turbine inventor, [208]
High frequency, Alternators, [78]
Currents, [12], [75]
Machine, [162]
Hiring and firing men, [161]
Hoe Brothers, printing press inventors, [203]
Howe, Elias, sewing machine inventor, [56], [203]
Hydro-electric power, [149]

Ice machine, invention of the, [204]
Idea,
The big, [181]
Factory, [180]
First raw, [3], [6]
Getting an, [1]
How to get an, [1]
of an inventive genius, [2]
Protecting your, [97]
What it is, [2]
Where it originates, [3]
Ideas,
For chemical inventions, [14]
For electrical inventions, [11]
For electro-chemical inventions, [15]
For electro-mechanical inventions, [13]
For inventions in general, [9]
Kinds of, [3]
For mechanical inventions, [9]
Protecting raw ideas, [16]
Thought out, [6]
Working out on paper, [19]
Incandescent light, invention of the, [210]
Inclined plane, [63]
Index of the patent office, [53]
Individual electric motors, [157]
Induction coil, [76]
Inductive discovery, [3]
Infra-red waves, [75], [79]
Infringement suit, [18]
Infringers of patents, [127]
Initial funds, how to raise, [132]
Interferences, [126]
Interruptor, [76]
Improvements needed, [181]
Iron ore, reduction of, [90]
Invent,
What to, [180]
What not to, [197]
Inventing,
Chemical compounds, [14]
Secret of, [180]
As a vocation, [131]
Invention,
Agreement, form of an, [133]
Guardian angel of, [7]
Heroes of, [200]
How to patent your, [112]
Keeping an interest in, [133]
Manufacturing an, [146]
Pay, making your, [131]
Protecting your, [97], [119]
Record of your, [18]
Of the sewing machine, [56]
Of the wardrobe trunk, [4]
What it consists of, [118]
Inventions,
In chemistry, [59]
In electro-chemistry, [59], [89]
In general, ideas for, [9]
Great, and what they paid, [203]
That have paid big, little, [201]
Ideas for chemical, [14]
Ideas for electrical, [11]
Ideas for electro-chemical, [15]
Ideas for electro-mechanical, [13]
Ideas for mechanical, [9]
Some big, needed,
Safety first, automobiles, [187]
Aviation, [188]
Chemistry, [190]
Electricity, [191]
Electro-chemistry, [192]
Building, mining and metallurgy, [193]
Printing, moving pictures, [195]
Other field of endeavor, [196]
Needed,
For the farm, some little, [183]
For fun, [185]
For the house, [182]
For the office, [184]
For the person, [182]
Protection against theft, [100]
Real, and what they paid, [202]
Selling small, [167]
Simple, and what they paid, [202]
What some have paid, [200]
Inventive ability, [131]
Inventive world, tour of, [200]
Inventors, [5]
Self-taught, [5]
Inventor’s salary contract, [144]
Isometric,
Drawing paper, [26]
Ellipse, how to draw, [32]
Paper, how to make, [27]
Perspective drawings, [20], [26], [122]

Jig saw, [157]

Kinetograph, invention of the, [213]
Kinetoscope, invention of the, [213]
Kodak camera, invention of the, [208]

Lathe, engine, [152]
Foot power, screw cutting, [103]
Plain, [151]
Screw cutting, power, [152]
Lawyer, retaining a, [144]
Lever, [63]
Bent, [64]
Compound, [64-65]
Leyden jar, [75]
Light waves, [75]
Light, [79]
Linotype, invention of the, [212]
Lists of consumers, where to buy, [169]
Locomotive, invention of the, [202]
Lodge, Sir Oliver, [181]

Machine design, [58]
Machine screws and nuts, sizes of, [235]
Machine tools, buying, [150]
Machines, commercial uses of, [62]
Compound, [69]
How to experiment with, [59]
Principles of, [62]
Magnet, electro-, [78]
Permanent steel, [78]
Magnetism, [74], [78]
Magneto-electric machine, [76]
Mail order business, [168]
Marconi, William, wireless telegraph inventor, [6], [214]
Manikin for drawing, [40]
Marketing your product, [166]
Mathematical formulas, some useful, [231]
Manual of classification, patent office, [57]
Manufacture, problem of, [146]
Manufactured product, finished, [162]
Manufacturer’s agent, [170]
Manufactory, locating a, [149]
Starting your own, [148]
Manufacturing your invention, [146]
Material, buying the raw, [159]
Materials, automatic machine made, [107], [159]
Buying, [108]
Raw, [149]
Mechanics, principles of, [58]
Mechanical,
Drawings, [19]
Inventions, ideas for, [9]
Movements, [58], [69], [70], [71], [72], [73]
Powers, [59], [63]
Mergenthaler, Ottmar, [212]
Micrometer, [103]
How to read a, [105]
Metric,
Changed to English measure, [234]
or decimal system, [232]
Measures of length, [233]
Measures of weight, [233]
Milling machine, universal, [156]
Minute book, [140]
Model,
of a British express locomotive, [95]
Building a, [96]
How to make, [91]
Makers, [97]
Ways to make, [97]
Models,
How to make cardboard, [42]
in Patent Office, [91]
Rough, [91-92]
Scale, [91-92], [95]
Working, [91-92]
Molecules and atoms, [61]
Monopoly, Government, [112], [127]
Morse, Samuel F. B., telegraph inventor, [203]
Moving pictures, invention of the, [212]
Muybridge, Eadweard, [213]

Nitric acid of the air, [16], [89]

Oath, patent, [120]
Form of, [124]
Official Gazette of the Patent Office, [53], [218]
Ohm’s Law, [243]
Organizing a shop force, [160]
Oscillating current, [78]
Otto, N. A., gas engine inventor, [204]
Overhead charges, [164]
How to figure, [165]
Oxy-Hydrogen furnace, [85]
Ozone of the air, [89]

Page, C. T., electric railway inventor, [211]
Parsons, steam turbine inventor, [209]
Partner, how to secure, [135-136]
Partnership, forming a, [135]
Patent,
About an interest in a, [134]
Agreement, Employee’s, [99]
Amending claims, [125]
Application, [116]
Application, filing fee for, [114]
Applying for a, [117]
Applying for your own, [115]
Assignment, [134]
Causes, [128]
Claims, [49], [117], [120], [122]
Claims, Amending, [117]
Claims, narrow, [113]
Copy of a, [125]
Counsel, [128]
Design, [216]
Drawings, [120], [122]
Drawings, rules for, [117]
Final Government fee for, [114]
Getting a, [51]
is granted, after your, [127]
is granted, when your, [127]
Interferences, [55], [126]
that pended for seven years, [126]
is pending, while your, [125]
Petition, [120]
Specifications, [49], [53], [117], [120], [122]
Suits, [128]
System bubbles, [115]
What it consists of, [112], [120]
What you may, [118]
Patentee, [127]
Patenting your invention, [112]
Patent attorneys,
Catching your, [115]
Flat-rate fee for, [114]
Judgment of, [118]
Retaining a, [47]
Temptation of, [115]
Patent attorneys, [54], [126], [127]
Advertising, [48], [113]
Choosing a, [112]
High-grade, [114]
Least charges of, [224]
Watching, [117]
Patent examiner, [50], [91], [114], [115]
Versus inventors discontent, [126]
and sewing machine needle, [56]
Sub-cellar, [51]
Methods, [125]
Patent experts, technical, [128]
Patent oath, [120], [124]
Patent office,
Action, [125]
Archives, [126]
Citing references, [117]
Citations, [125]
Fees, [217]
Index, [53]
Manual of classification, [57]
Official Gazette, [53]
Red tape, [126]
Rejection of claims, [117]
Rules of practice of, [116]
Patent office search, a desk, [48]
a free, [48]
a special, [48]
Preliminary, [49]
Patents,
Foreign, [224]
See [foreign patents]
Paper, [130]
Number granted each year, [118]
Patterns, complicated, [110]
Making, [108]
Perpetual motion, [62], [77], [199]
Perspective drawings, [25]
Isometric, [20], [26]
Perspective, simple way to draw in, [26]
Petition, patent, [120]
Philosophy, [3], [6]
Phonograph, invention of the, [207]
Physics, first book on, [7]
Planer, [154]
Planté, Gaston, storage battery inventor, [208]
Power, [59], [65]
Protractor, how to use it, [31]
Protecting raw ideas, [16]
Preliminary search, [47]
Printing press, perfecting, invention of the, [203]
Priority, [16]
Profits, how to figure, [165]
Promoter, ordinary, [137]
Professional, [100]
Real, [137]
Tin-horn, [137]
Where he comes in, [136]
Pseudotriakis microdon, [113]
Publicity, how to get it, [175]
Pulley, [63]

Radiation, [74], [79]
Reading helps, [6]
References, Patent Office citing, [117]
Register of copyrights, [221]
Reis, Johanne Phillip, telephone inventor, [205]
Resistance bridge, [83]
Rights, selling invention, [135]
Ro, a universal language, [50]
Roosevelt, [115]
Royalties on inventions, [135]
Rubber, discovery of, [4]
Rules of practice, [120], [135], [218]

Saving the watchword, [194]
Scale drawings, [19], [21]
Screw, [63]
Theory of the, [68]
Seal, corporate, [142]
Seal Press, [142]
Search, a desk patent office, [48]
Free patent, [48], [113]
Preliminary Patent Office, [49]
Special Patent Office, [49]
Selden, George B., daddy of the automobile, [209]
Selling direct to the consumer, [172]
Selling goods, basic principles of, [166]
Selling through sales agents, [171]
Selling the stock issue of a company, [147]
Selling through the trade, [174]
Sewing machine, invention of the, [203]
Sewing machine needle, [56]
Shaper, [155]
Shop force, organizing a, [160]
Shop foreman, hiring a, [160]
Shop rights, selling, [135]
Shop, starting your own, [148]
Shrinkage of castings, [111]
Siemens, dynamo inventor, [204]
Snap-shot camera, invention of the, [208]
Solders, hard, [241]
Solenoid, [13], [79]
Spark-coil, [76]
Specifications, patent, [53]
Starr, J. W., incandescent lamp inventor, [210]
Standardizing your product, [159]
Static electricity, [74-75]
Specification, amending the, [118]
Patent, [49], [117]
State of the art, [45]
Having a patent attorney look it up, [47]
How to learn the, [46]
How to look it up, [47], [51]
Use of the, [46]
What it means, [45]
Steam boat, invention of the, [202]
Steam engine, drawing of a, [22]
Invention of the, [202]
Steam turbine, invention of the, [208]
Steel, high speed, [244]
Steel process, invention of the, [204]
Stephenson, locomotive inventor, [202]
Stock certificate, [141]
Stock certificate book, [141]
Stock company, fees for incorporating, [140]
How it is operated, [142]
How to organize a, [139]
Stock ledger, [142]
Stock full paid, [143]
Stock room, [161]
Stock of a company, selling the, [144]
Stock transfer book, [11]
Stock, treasury, [143]
Stock company, what it is, [138]
Storage battery, invention of the, [208]
Supreme Court, U. S., [112]
Symbols, how to make electrical, [36]
Synthetic gems, [85]

Taps and dies, sizes of, [235]
Telautograph, [13], [17]
Telegraph, invention of the, [203]
Telegraph sounder, [13]
Telephone, Bell, [56]
Invention of the, [205]
Telephone transmitter, [76]
Territorial rights, [135]
Tesla, dynamo inventor, [46]
Thermometer scales, four chief, [251]
Things are money, [201]
Thompson, dynamo inventor, [46]
Thoughts are things, [201]
Thurber, Charles, typewriter inventor, [207]
Time stamp, Thompson, [161]
Tools, useful jewelers and machinists, [101]
Tour of the inventive world, [200]
Trade marks, [220]
Transfer tax law, [141]
Treasury stocks, [143]
Trolley car and line invention of the, [211]
Twining, ice machine inventor, [204]
Twist drills, sizes of, [235]
Typewriter, invention of the, [207]

Ultra violet waves, [75], [79]
United States patent, [127]
United States Patent Office, [47], [135]
United States Supreme Court, [112]
Unit of work, [60]
Universal milling machine, [156]

Van Depoele, C. J., trolley line inventor, [211]
Velocity, [60]
Vernier, [103]
Vernier, how to read a, [103]
Violet ray machine, [162]
Vibrator, [76]
Voltmeter, [83]

Watt, James, steam engine inventor, [202]
Wedge, [63]
What not to invent, [197]
Wheatstone, Charles, telephone inventor, [206]
Wheel and axle, [63]
Weston, dynamo inventor, [46]
Westinghouse, air brake inventor, [131], [205]
Wilde, dynamo inventor, [204]
Winding machine, [83]
Wire
Gage, how to use a, [106]
Number, length, weight and resistance of pure copper, [244], [245]
Prices of insulated magnet, [247]
Number of turns that can be wound in a given space, [246]
Wiring diagrams, how to make, [39]
Wireless telegraph, invention of the, [214]
Wireless telephone, [12]
Wireless telephone, invention of the, [215]
Wireless waves, [75]
Words and terms used in this book, [253]
Work, [59]
Energy and power, [60]
Farming it out, [147]
Unit of, [60]
Working drawings, [19]
Wright brothers, aeroplane inventors, [215]