. Review of reviews and world's work. nds, he ditl all anhonest man could, even to tlie mortgaging of aportion of his prospects. Finally, he engineeredthorough chemical tests, and produced affidavitsfrom several eminent scientific and practical men. Refure such evidence even a Patent < )ffice com-missioner could not stand, and on August 19,1856, he triumphantly received Patent No. 15,-553, for Producing Concentrated Sweet Milkby Evaporation in Vacuoy GREAT BRITAIN CONCEDES THE CREDIT. Rival claims are usually plenty for such anhonor. For instance, the London Saturdai/Review put forth some E
. Review of reviews and world's work. nds, he ditl all anhonest man could, even to tlie mortgaging of aportion of his prospects. Finally, he engineeredthorough chemical tests, and produced affidavitsfrom several eminent scientific and practical men. Refure such evidence even a Patent < )ffice com-missioner could not stand, and on August 19,1856, he triumphantly received Patent No. 15,-553, for Producing Concentrated Sweet Milkby Evaporation in Vacuoy GREAT BRITAIN CONCEDES THE CREDIT. Rival claims are usually plenty for such anhonor. For instance, the London Saturdai/Review put forth some English army officers asvictims of a patent-robbery by Borden ! Thepriority of Bordens work was plain, but thiswas in the happily forgotten period when Eng-land refused to recognize as good anything com-ing from the United States. Here is, for finalauthority, an extract from the EncyclopaediaBritannicas article on condensed milk : The credit of originating the industry is due to Borden, of White Plains, N. Y. In 1851 he intro-. 1UII,I)IN(! TIIK MODKUN CiAI-VKSTON SEA W.\L1-. (The first fntcincei-iiiK work liere was done by Gail Borden,who laid out the city for its charter of IKli).) (hiced his i;laiu condensed milk, which is simply milkfrom whicli between three-fourths and four-fifths oftlie water lias been removed, and in 1861 he renderedimportant services to the army in the field by supply-ing a preserved milk whicli was in effect milk similarlyconcentrated with a proportion of sugar added and her-metically sealed in tin cans. These important services to the Union,indeed, marked the turn of the tide in Bordensfortunes. His manufacturing prospects were ata dangerously low ebb when the war broke years before, his original financiers hadlost their nerve, backed out, and left the inventorto be sued for the firms bills. He thereupon sethis teeth all the tighter, and secured anotherpartner. But few orders came in to the enlargedplant at Wassaic, N. Y. ; the product
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