Contents - Inventors & Inventions - 2

[BY HENRY ROBINSON ENGINEER AND INVENTOR]	5
[A. G. ARNOLD, Esq.]	7
[THE SUCCESSFUL INVENTOR THE UNSUCCESSFUL INVENTOR]	12
[THE STEPS BY WHICH HE IS REQUIRED TO CLIMB AND MOUNT That DESIRED EMINENCE]	14
[ INVENTORS SELDOM HAVE ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF THEIR ASPIRATIONS AND PROSPECTS.]	16
[FINANCE MINISTERS]	17
[VISION SUFFICIENTLY PENETRATING TO DETECT THE NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE.]	21
["NO ONE POOR ENOUGH TO DO HIS INVENTION REVERENCE."]	21
["A BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH."]	27
[THE GOOD WILL AND WELL WISHES OF THOSE WHO HELPED CREATE IT.]	29
[ NUMEROUS AND DEEP ARE THE PITFALLS THAT THE WOULD-BE-SUCCESSFUL INVENTOR MUST AVOID.]	31
[ VICTIMS CONSTANTLY THROWN UP BY THE WAVES OF PASSION AND FOLLY, ON THE STERILE SHORE OF HUMAN INDIFFERENCE.]	35
[SHORT AND EASY CUT TO OPULENCE AND EASE.]	35
[ WHO CAN FATHOM OR SET A LIMIT TO THE INGENUITY OF THAT DIVINE CREATION, THE HUMAN BRAIN? NONE BUT ITS CREATOR.]	37
[ OUR ORDINARY EVERYDAY MECHANICAL UTILITIES WOULD BE CONSIDERED MAGIC BY HIM WHO WROTE—"THERE'S NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN."]	37
[NEWTON.]	57
[HERSCHEL.]	57
[S. F. B. MORSE.]	57
[ROBERT FULTON, INVENTOR OF THE STEAMBOAT.]	57
[BENJ. FRANKLIN.]	57
[ELIAS HOWE.]	57
[JAS. WATT.]	57
[LORD KELVIN.]	57
[THOS. A. EDISON.]	57
[SIG. MARCONI.]	57
[SIR H. BESSEMER.]	57
[C. H. MC CORMICK.]	57
[PROFESSOR HUXLEY.]	57
[HUMBOLDT.]	57
[CHAS. DARWIN.]	57
[SEYMOUR M. BONSALL.]	57
[AN INTELLIGENT AND PRUDENT INVENTOR WILL CAREFULLY NOTE HIS OWN CAPACITY.]	61
[ OBSERVE EVERYTHING CAREFULLY. TRY TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING YOU SEE. REASON LOGICALLY. DO NOT OVERLOOK DETAILS.]	63
[Don't Imagine Yourself a Solomon.]	63
[ "THE EAGLE AND THE JACKDAW." DON'T BITE OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN SWALLOW.]	63
[DON'T SET YOURSELF A QUIXOTIC TASK.]	63
[DON'T GO ABOUT WITH A FACE AS SOLEMN AND ANXIOUS AS THOUGH YOU WERE ATLAS.]	63
[SHE WANTS TO BE SHOWN.]	63
[SHE WILL NOT BE SLOW IN HANDING YOU UP THE SUGAR LUMPS.]	63
[TO CAST ASIDE WHEN YOU BECOME SUCCESSFUL THE SHARER OF YOUR EARLY POVERTY AND STRUGGLES.]	63
[YOU WILL BE GREATER BY NOT FOLLOWING ANYBODY'S EXAMPLE IN THAT RESPECT.]	63
[ONLY A TEMPERATE ABSTEMIOUS REGIME OF LIFE CAN GIVE THE HEALTHY BRAIN.]	63
[DONT FORGET THE PEOPLE YOU KNEW.]	63
[THE SWIPEING MFG CO HAVE STOLEN MY INVENTION.]	80
[WE MUST HAVE 1000 DOLLARS AS A RETAINING FEE.]	80
[DEFENDED IN COURT * * * * ON TECHNICALITIES.]	80
[ THE EXPLOITERS OF HIS INVENTION CAN ENJOY THEIR ILL-GOTTEN GAINS WITH IMPUNITY.]	80
[WHY, OH WHY, IS THE STEALING OF ONE KIND OF PROPERTY A CRIMINAL OFFENSE, ANOTHER ONLY A CIVIL TORT?]	85
[BUT IS IT DIFFERENT OH! NOW! IF THE STOLEN PROPERTY IS A MENTAL INSTEAD OF A HAND PRODUCT?]	86
[THE WORLD IS USUALLY MORE MINDFUL OF THE MAN WITH THE "BIG STICK," THAN WITH THE "BIG GRIEVANCE."]	88
[ DIFFERENCE IN THE TREATMENT METED OUT BY OUR GOVERNMENT TO HIM WHO RENDERS SERVICES TO SOCIETY, BY DIGGING IN THE DIRT, AND TO HIM WHO USES THE BRAIN.]	90
[ HAS NOT THE INGENUITY OF THE INVENTOR ENABLED EVEN THE FARMER * * * TO GET GREATER RETURNS FOR HIS LABOR? * * * HAS HE NOT MADE HIS WORK LIGHTER AND HAS HE NOT ENABLED HIM TO GET MORE OF THE GOOD THINGS OF THIS WORLD?]	92
[THROUGH THE INVENTOR'S INGENUITY AND INDUSTRY THIS COUNTRY HAS ATTAINED ITS MIGHTY POTENCY IN WAR.]	93

BY
HENRY ROBINSON
ENGINEER AND INVENTOR

1911

DEDICATED
TO MY FRIEND AND BENEFACTOR
A. G. ARNOLD, ESQ.

A. G. ARNOLD. Esq.