Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1889 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Progress of Inventions Sine? 1845. In tte Ae«*r 1*45 the nt owners of the Scientific American newspaper commenced its publication, and scon after established a bureau for procutiug of patents for Inventions at horn and io foreign countries.— During the year there were only 502 patents issued train the U. S. Patent Office, and the total issue frem the establishment of the Patent Office, up to the end of that year numbered onb 4 437. Up to the first of July this year there have been granted 406,413. — Showing that since t e commence, meut of t e publication of the scientific American, there have been is sued from the U. S. Patent Office 102,166 naten's, and about one-third mu; e applications have been made than have been grunted, showing the ingenuity of our people to b phenomenal, and much greater than ever the enormous number of patents issued indicates. Probably a good many of our readers have nad business transacts /hrough the offices of the Scientific American, in New York or Washington, and are familiar with Munn & Co.’s mode of doing business, but those who have not will bo luU erested in knowing something about this, the oldest patent soliciting firm in this country, probably in the world

Persons visitiL- the offices of the Scientific American, «61 Broadway, N- Y., for the first time will be sur-pris-d. on aii’ering the main office, to find such an extensive and elegant* Iv equipped establishment, with its walnut counters, desks, and chairs to correspond, and its enormous safes, and such a large number of draughts men, specification write s, and clerks, all buey as bees, reminding one of .* large banking or insurance office, with its hundred employees. In conversation with ore of the firm, who had commenced the business oi soliciting patents in connection with tlie 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 inventors in the United States, and several thousands i difierfnt foreign countries, and haa filed as many cases in the Patent Office in a single month as there were patents issued during the entire first year of their business career. {This gentleman had seen the Patent Office grow from a sapling to a sturdy oak, and he modestly hinted that many thought the Scientific American, with its large circ lation, 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., at a large number are engaged on the four publications issued weekly and monthly from their offi°e, 361 Broadway, N Y . viz: The Scientific American, the Scientific American Supplement, t'e Export Edition of the Scientific amer ioan. and the Architee s and Builders Edition of the Scientific American The first’wo publications ar* issued every week, and the latter two, .he first of every month.

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