Our country and its resources; . CAPTAIN JAMES B. EADS 206 on: ami its RESOURCES granted up to thai year, over 500of which were issued in the yearls-4.!, and apprehending a cessationof all endeavors in the Qeld of in-vention, uttered this prediction inhis official report : The advance-ment of the arts, from year to year,taxes our credulity and seems topresage the arrival of that periodwhen human improvement mustend. The commissioner could wellmarvel at the astounding advancesmade in labor-saving devices duringhis own lifetime, but what wouldhave been his mental state could hehave bee
Our country and its resources; . CAPTAIN JAMES B. EADS 206 on: ami its RESOURCES granted up to thai year, over 500of which were issued in the yearls-4.!, and apprehending a cessationof all endeavors in the Qeld of in-vention, uttered this prediction inhis official report : The advance-ment of the arts, from year to year,taxes our credulity and seems topresage the arrival of that periodwhen human improvement mustend. The commissioner could wellmarvel at the astounding advancesmade in labor-saving devices duringhis own lifetime, but what wouldhave been his mental state could hehave been endowed with propheticvision and have foreseen hut a frac-tion of the inventive activity whichhas taken place in a mans lifetimefrom the date of his utterance? Thenumber of patents now is over amillion, the annual issue is morethan three times the number of allthe patents -ranted up to his the examining corps has in-creased from four to almost fourhundred without being able to keeppace with the ever growing tide of.
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