Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 27 May 1963 — Page 6

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WASHINGTON (UPI> — Every day 350 American inventors apply to the federal government for a patent and automatically become mental millionaires. They have rosy dreams of quick wealth, but as the days, months and years roll

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by they are driven to the conciusion that roulette and crapshooting may be better bets. The odds against an inventor getting rich are formidable. There is almost a fifty-fifty chance that somebody thought up the gadget

before he did and already has obtained a patent. In any case his application goes to the bottom of a list of 198,000 others which are awaiting a decision in the U. S. Patent Office, and on an average it will be between three and three and a half years before he 1 will know how he stands. Only The Beginning But his troubles are only beginning. Once he gets the patent, he has to persuade somebody to manufacture and sell his gadget and here, again, his chances are

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only a little better than fiftyfifty. Too many people invent things that nobody happens to want at the moment. The classic example is Johannes Gutenberg, a German who invented movable type in the middle of the 15th century. He made crude block letters and printed a 28-page book in Latin advising people how to make speeches. Then he ran out of money and got a loan from Johann Fust, a banker. Gutenberg then printed some bibles, but they didn’t sell

well. The miscalculation in Gutenberg’s plan was that very few people knew how to read and there wasn’t any market for printed pages. The banker foreclosed on him, seized all of his equipment and Gutenberg wound up working for the archbishop of Mainz at a salary of one new suit of clothes a year. Has Same Problem Bartolomeo Cristofori ran into the same problem when he invented the piano in-1709. The Italians didn’t like the piano, prefer-

ring the dulcimer and the harpsichord, and Cristofori’s pianos rotted in the warehouses. Long after the inventor’s death a German, Gottfried Silbermann, read about Cristofori’s pianos and began to build them. He got rich fast. The Germans happened to like pianos. American industry is highly competitive and the natural assumption would be that corporations would slug it out with each other in an attempt to get an invention that would improve their

product. But sometimes they appear to be completely blind when a new idea—patented and proved —is put before them. Tells Amasing Story In 1926 F. W. Davis invented power steering for automobiles. It made a car infinitely easier to handle and obviously was a strong selling point to women drivers. But just the other day Davis, in Boston, told in the Wall Street Journal an amazing story about his invention. As soon as he had perfected the device he took it to Detroit and demonstrated it to 10 automobile companies. None was interested. In >928 he stirred some interest in Cadillac Motors, he said, and a tentative licensing agreement was drawn up. But Cadillac decided the cost of tooling the invention was too high and the agreement was allowed to expire. Davis said he then went to the Bendix Corp-, which agreed to experiment but only on pilot models for buses and trucks. Sometime in 1940 Davis said he got the Buick Motor Co. interested in power steering. “It looked like we were ready to go,’’ he said, “but then eame Pearl Harbor and the end of civilian automobile production. “After the war I went back to Cadillac and they told me they didn’t need anything new because they were selling all the cars they could make. It was not until 1951 when a buyers' market returned that the automobile makers became interested in power steering. When Chrysler introduced a power steering model, everybody wanted one and I began to make some money.” Gets First Patent Before adoption of the U.S. Constitution the American colonies and states issued patents and the first one went to Samuel Winslow of Massachusetts, who in 1641 devised a new method for manufacturing salt. President George Washington signed the first federal patent law on April 10, 1790, and since then the U.S. Patent Office has granted 3,090,044 applications. Most of them have been forgotten, and that is the reason few inventors get rich. But when a man comes up with the right thing at the right time, the money rolls in like the tides of the ocean. Take Cyrus H. McCormick, for instance. His father owned four farms in Virginia, two saw mills and a blacksmith shop, and was constantly tinkering with the idea of a machine for harvesting his grain. Salves Problem Young McCormick went to work on the problem and in 1931, at the age of 22, submitted his plans to the family blacksmith. What he had done was to solve the problem of how to keep stones and stumps from breaking the sharp edge of the knives which cut the grain. He did it by protecting them with a string of metal fingers which brushed aside the rocks. Before 1831 a man with a scythe could cut about half an acre of grain a day. Soon McCormick's reaper was cutting 16 acres a day, even though it was horse drawn. McCormick had hit the jackpot and he moved to Chicago, where he put up a factory and sold reapers as fast as he could make them. Two Are Fined In City Court Today Two fines were paid and three cases were continued in city court this morning with Richard J. Sullivan presiding in the absence of Judge John B. Stults, who is out of town. Paying fines were James Clqsson of Decatur, $1 and costs, totaling sl7, on a charge of disorderly conduct; and Elvin Adkins, 21, 401 W. Adams St., paid a fine of $1 and costs, totaling $9.75, on a city ordinance violation of running a stop sign. The case of improper parking against Rex E. Strickler, 206 N. 16th St., was continued until Monday, June 3, and the case of Raymond Jess Ralston, charged with an improper signal, was also continued, Jerry Lee Liby pleaded not guilty to a charge of reckless driving, and his case was continued to June 3, at which time a trial will be held. Daniel J. Butcher, 1062 Russell St., pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving left of center, and was found not guilty of the charge by the court. ■. > Hours Changed By House Os Friends A change in opening hours at the House of Friends was announced today. The house will be open from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, and from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday. GERANIUMS 3 f 0.‘1-oo and up. MYERS FLORIST 903 N. 13th

and up.

MONDAY, MAY 27, 1963

Seek Recognition For Bible College Fort Wayne Bible College will aply immediately for candidate status in the North Central association of colleges and secondary schools. The decision to go ahead and seek such recognition was made in joint action by the faculty and governing board. The college has been in continuous self study for a number of years in an attempt to improve standards to meet conditions for approval by the N:C.A. When a vote was taken of the faculty on whether to proceed for full accreditation or for candidate status the decision was split evenly. This reflected the optimism that the faculty feel in regard to achieving accreditation, as well as the conservatism that they should proceed slowly with sure steps. The governing board took full cognizance of faculty views in its meeting of March 19 and recommended to the faculty that immediate application should be made for candidate status, and that application for full membership be postponed tor one year in order to add strength to those areas deemed most in need of such. The board in effect gave the faculty the final decision on the step to be taken, reflecting the confidence it has in those chosen to teach. The faculty concurred with the board recommendation with a unanimous vote. Areas which need strengthening before application tor full accreditation is sought are: faculty salaries, library holdings and additional dormitory facilities. An appeal has recently been sent to some friends of the college to seek an increase in the number of books in the library ; the board gave significant increases in faculty salaries, with hopes that a further increase will be forthcoming next year. Faculty salary scale for full-time teachers presently ranges from $3,400 to $5,600 per year. The new scale which will go into efefet in the fall ranges from $3,600 to $6,400 per year. This does not brnig Fort Wayne Bible College average salaries up to the national median which is about $5,700, but it does raise the base and sets the pace for future increase in years to come. Two Accidents In Decatur Saturday Two accidents occurred in Decatur, with only two of four vehivles involved receiving any damages. A car operated by Fred Steiner, 35, route 3, Decatur, suffered an estimated $125 damage when struck by an auto operated by Wanda Lucillel Hamrick, 34, 516 Patterson St., at 1:52 p-m. Saturday. Steiner was southbound on Third St., and as he made a left turn onto Madison, the Hamrick car, headed west on Madison St., pulled out and hit the left side of the Steiner car. Her vision had been obscured by a packed vehicle to the north. The Hamrick auto was not damaged. - Cars driven by John O’Campo, 57, 703 N. Eleventh St., and Ora K. Ratcliff, 60, route 6, Decatur, were involved in a 7:30 p.m. mishap Saturday, with only the Ratcliff vehicle damaged, and that being only $2 damage. Both were parked on the east side of Second St, in the 200 block facing north. As O'Campo pulled from a parked position, his auto hit the left rear tail light at the Ratcliff car.

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