TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Chapter I.Looking Forward[11]
Chapter II.Looking Backward[14]
Chapter III.Patents the Greatest Source of Wealth[21]
Chapter IV.Successful Inventors[22]
Chapter V.Field of Invention[27]
Chapter VI.Growth of the Field of Invention[32]
Chapter VII.Necessary Steps[38]
Chapter VIII.Sounding the Market[48]
Chapter IX.Practical Development[49]
Chapter X.Lower Cost—Superior Merit[50]
Chapter XI.Application for Patents, Etc.
Picture of U.S. Patent Office.		[51]
Chapter XII.Marketing[54]
Chapter XIII.Discouragements and Dangers[56]
Chapter XIV.Selling Patents[60]
Chapter XV.Conclusion[62]
Chapter XVI.Statistics of the Countries of the World[63]
Chapter XVII.Mechanical Movements and Explanation Thereof[65]