Hardware merchandising (January-June 1902) . a year a- long as it continued who were able to remunerate the inven-tor on a colossal scale. It is estimatedthat his income averaged between §200,-000 and §250,000 per annum. At first theprocess proved an entire failure and hadto be laid aside as useless. It was notuntil an old German workman casuallymade a suggestion for a possible improve-ment that it was once more tried. TheSuggestion was improved upon and theinvention rendered successful. All sugarrefiners who used the new method allowed a total of 148,000,000, which realized pro-fits of §1,150
Hardware merchandising (January-June 1902) . a year a- long as it continued who were able to remunerate the inven-tor on a colossal scale. It is estimatedthat his income averaged between §200,-000 and §250,000 per annum. At first theprocess proved an entire failure and hadto be laid aside as useless. It was notuntil an old German workman casuallymade a suggestion for a possible improve-ment that it was once more tried. TheSuggestion was improved upon and theinvention rendered successful. All sugarrefiners who used the new method allowed a total of 148,000,000, which realized pro-fits of §1,150,000 for the year. Women seem also to possess the inven-tive faculty, and, indeed, they must findplenty of scope for new ideas, as thereare hundreds of little things waiting tobe superseded by simple appliances thatwill minimize handwork and obviate thenecessity of so much toil being daily ex-pended in the household. The lady whoinvented the modern baby carriage en-riched herself to the extent of § ; CANADIAN HARDWARE AND METAL 19. 20 CANADIAN HARDWARE AND METAL and a young lady living at Iort Eliza-beth, South Africa, devised the simpletoilet requisite, known as the MaryAnderson curling iron, from which shederives royalties amounting to $500 ayear. It was the wife of a clergyman whodesigned an improvement for the corsetand made a fortune out of it. Instancesof ladies bringing forward inventionswhich have added to personal comfortand general utility could be given ad in-finitum. They occupy all ranks of so-ciety, from the poor, struggling seamtressto the Empress of France, who, by theway, invented a dress improver, whichyears ago developed into the then fash-ionable crinoline. The gimlet - pointedscrew, the idea of a little girl, broughtmany millions of dollars to the cleverlittle inventor. Miss Knight, a younglady of exceptional talents, was giftedwith wonderful mechanical powers, as willbe seen by the complicated mechanism ofher machine for making paper bags. Wearc
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