Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1918 — Inventors Hard at Work. [ARTICLE]

Inventors Hard at Work.

Uncle Sam granted the first patent of the present series 82 years ago. Patent No. 1, Issued on July 13, 1836, Was for a device to keep car wheels from slipping. Several years ago the millionth patent was Issued, on a pneumatic tire, which proves that inventors are still much concerned with wheels. The constant demand for better transit facilities is responsible for the largest proportion of patents. Flying machines at the present time are the particular object of inventors’ minds, and day passes without an application covering some new and novel type of machine for navigating the air.