Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1915 — INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES

Laboratory for Free Use of Men With Ideas

NEW YORK. —A laboratory In •which Indigent inventors can work out their ideas is one of the features of the new home of the American Museum of Safety, on West Twenty-fourth street. The museum, first of its kind In America to be installed, but the twen-

ty-third in the world, has recently occupied its new and commodious quarters. The laboratory is intended, primarily, for the evolution of safety devices, but it is understood that the work of the inventors will not be restricted. They will have the free use of the rooms and equipment, but must furnish their own material. It Is expected the fact an inventor has had the use of the laboratory will be a

fuaranty that his idea is worth perfecting, and will insure a hearing from the capitalist whom he may be seeking to interest. The American Museum of Safety was organized and is maintained for the prevention of accidents, the elimination or lessening of occupational diseases, and the promotion of industrial welfare through health, efficiency and cooperation. A trained staff of investigators supplies information to members and to the public, and within the past two years two state museums have been founded with the co-operation of the American Museum r of Safety. These §n> the museums in Boston and San Francisco. Such an institution as the American Museum of Safety is not coercive, but suggestive. The law says that dangerous parts of machines must be protected. The museum, through its jury of experts, tries to place on view every known safety device, so that the employer may select the one best adapted to his particular needs; in other words, the museum becomes the experimental laboratory for every industrialist in the country.