Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1900 — Never Without Predecessors. [ARTICLE]

Never Without Predecessors.

“Au inventor Is a man who makes something new, isn’t lie, pa?” “Well, not exactly. lie Is a man who thinks he has made something new, but finds that half a dozen men invented it long before he did.” —I’uck.