Tips to Inventors (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Tips to Inventors The same holds good with inventions. There is very little profit in inventions which can be realized upon immediately. They are mere surface washings. All the big things have taken time and patience to bring to perfection, and any inventor who finds himself making quick profits may be sure that they will be short-lived, although he may have a good thing while it lasts. Some very large fortunes have been made out of apparently trivial inventions, and one of the most remunerative contrivances ever invented, the famous toy called the "Return Ball, " sold for only a cent. The glass Thumb Tack, which is yielding to its originator a small fortune annually, is the latest of a long series of inventions which have been enormously profitable to those who were fortunate in inventing them. Money Made In Inventions. It is evident from the fact that upwards of sixty thousand applications for patents and designs are filed each year in the United States Patent Office, and from the number granted and issued each week, that the majority of patents taken out prove lucrative. Probably about one-fifth of the inventors obtain their patents with a definite view of manufacturing their inventions, and the remainder with the view of reaping their profits from the sale of the rights to manufacture. It has been well said that, "Patents and Trade go hand in hand, " and the Commissioner of Patents, in an official report, clearly sets forth that from six to seven-eighths of the manufacturing capital of the United States is either directly or indirectly based upon patents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.