. Samuel Morse: his letters and journals. Edited and supplemented by his son Edward Lind Morse; illustrated with reporductions of his paintings and with notes and diagrams bearing on the invention of the telegraph. MARBLE-CARVING MACHINE 245 Morses active mind was ever bent on invention, andin this year he devised and sought to patent a machine forcarving marble statues, perfect copies of any had great hopes of pecuniary profit from this in-vention and it is mentioned many times in the letters ofthis and the following year, but he found, on enquiry,that it was not patentable, as
. Samuel Morse: his letters and journals. Edited and supplemented by his son Edward Lind Morse; illustrated with reporductions of his paintings and with notes and diagrams bearing on the invention of the telegraph. MARBLE-CARVING MACHINE 245 Morses active mind was ever bent on invention, andin this year he devised and sought to patent a machine forcarving marble statues, perfect copies of any had great hopes of pecuniary profit from this in-vention and it is mentioned many times in the letters ofthis and the following year, but he found, on enquiry,that it was not patentable, as it would have been an in-fringement on the machine of Thomas Blanchard whichwas patented in 1820. So once more were his hopes of independence blasted,as they had been in the case of the pump and longed, like all artists, to be free from the pettycares and humiliations of the struggle for existence,free to give full rein to his lofty aspirations, secure in theconfidence that those he loved were well provided for;but, like most other geniuses, he was compelled to drinkstill deeper of the bitter cup, to drain it to the very dregs. In the month of August, 1823, he went to Albany,hoping through his acq
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