Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — Simplicity of Clever Inventions. [ARTICLE]

Simplicity of Clever Inventions.

The best way to become an author is to be born with u brain subject to flashes of inspiration that will supply you with lirst cluss plots. But If you want to bo an Inventor you Hltould work from the opposite standpoint. Find a crying need and seek to think out n meuns by which it may be met. Here is the fashion in which one man did this; Walking through a greenhouse one day, ho noticed that the gardener was obliged to go to a good deal of trouble to raise each ventilating window separately. ‘‘Why could not some arrangement be devised,” this observant individual said to himself, "by which all these windows could be opened by one movement?” He thought o .er the problem and contrived a model, and the result was the apparatus now in use In all conservatories.