Our country and its resources; . cept the type-setting machine, hut in the held ofelectricity I incandescent lamp, trol- ley car, electric welding), optics(kinetoscope, transparent film) andair navigation (an absolutely new art) he did not remain inactive. SOME PROLIFIC INVENTORS Between 1^7^ and 1900, ThomasEdison had received 742 patents; Richards, 619; Elihu Thomson,444; Charles E. Scribner. :;74; Crowell, -!.>.!: Edward Weston,2S0; R. M. Hunter, 276; Charles Depoele, 24.); and (Jcor^e West-inghouse, 239, Up to 1910 Edisonsecured 003 patents, of which electrical.
Our country and its resources; . cept the type-setting machine, hut in the held ofelectricity I incandescent lamp, trol- ley car, electric welding), optics(kinetoscope, transparent film) andair navigation (an absolutely new art) he did not remain inactive. SOME PROLIFIC INVENTORS Between 1^7^ and 1900, ThomasEdison had received 742 patents; Richards, 619; Elihu Thomson,444; Charles E. Scribner. :;74; Crowell, -!.>.!: Edward Weston,2S0; R. M. Hunter, 276; Charles Depoele, 24.); and (Jcor^e West-inghouse, 239, Up to 1910 Edisonsecured 003 patents, of which electrical. Considering all thepatents that are probably pendingor in course of preparation, it isestimated that the number of hisinventions is greater than 2,000. itis safe to assert that he is the mostproline inventor of all time. Although Great Britain has morepioneer inventions to her credit in-volving fundamental operations thatunderlie all industry, than any othercountry, the only innovations of pio-neer character she has contributed. rright, Harris & i;« lug ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL THE PATENT OFFICE 200 in the lasl one half century arc thebasic process for making steel, thesteam turbine, and the cyanide pro-cess. But the steam engine, thegreatest invention of all ages, ishers, and so is the Bessemer process,
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