Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1889 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Progress of Inventions Sine > 1845. In th 6 Aear 1°45 the pr«a nt owners of the Scientific, American newspaper commenced its publication, and scon after established a bureau for procuiing of patents for inventions at horn and in foreign countries.— Paring the year 1845 there were only 502 patents issued from the U. S. Patent Office, and the total issue from the establishment of the Patent Office, up to the end of that year, numbered only 4,437. Up te the first of July this year there have been granted 406,413. — Showing that since t e commence* ment of t e publication of the .'Scientific American, there have been is sued from the U. 8. Patent Office 402,166 patents, and about one-third more applications have been made than have been granted, showing the ingenuity of oar people to ba phenomenal, and much greater than ever the enormous number of patents issued indicates. Probably a good many of our readers have had business transacted through the offices of the Scientific American, in New York or Washington, and are familiar with Munn a Co.'s mode of doing business, but those who have not will be int« erested in knowing something about this, the oldest patent soliciting firm in this country, probably in the world. Persons visitiLu the offices of the Scientific American, H6l Broadway, N. Y„ for the first time will Le surprised. on entering the main office, to find such an extensive aid elegant* Iv equipped establishment, with its walnut counters, desks, and ehairs to correspond, and its enartnous safes, and such a large number of draughts men, specification write s, and clerks, all busy as bee*, ratnindfag one of a large banking or insurance effiee, with its hundred employees. In conversation with one of the firm, who had commenced the business oi soliciting patents in connection with the publication of the Scientific American, more than forty years ago. I learned that this firm had made application so patents for upward of one hundred thousand in* vectors in the* United States, and several thousands k different foreign countries, and haa fled as many cases is the Patent Office in a single month as there were patents issued during the entire first rear of their business career. jThis gentleman had seen the Patent Office crow from a sapling to a sturdy oak, and he modestly fainted that many thought the Scientific American, with its large circ Nation, had performed no mean share in stimulating inventions and advancing the interests of the Patent Office but it is not alone the patent soliciting that occupies the attention of the one hundred persons employed by Munn & Co., nt a large number are encaged on the four publications issued weekly and monthly from their offi°e, 361 Broadway, NY. viz: The Scientific American, the Scientific American Supplement, t h e Export Edition of the Scientific amer ioan. and the Architec s and Builders Edition of the Bcienpific American The first two publications are issued every week, and the latter two, .he first of every month.

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