Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1900 — Never Without Predecessors. [ARTICLE]

Never Without Predecessors.

“An inventor is a man w’ho makes something new, Isn’t he, pa?” “Well, not exactly. He is a man who thinks he has made something new, but finds that half a dozen men invented it long before he did.”—Puck.