Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1908 — Invention as a Business. [ARTICLE]

Invention as a Business.

Commenting on a recent article whose writer laments that more persons do not take up inventing as a regular business, the Electric Review (London) says: “We doubt whether inventing in the highest sense can be made a business to be learned by anybody. Inventors are born, not made. Our own country is not lacking in the divine inspiration, if we are to judge by the number of patents applied for; a different conclusion might he arrived a* if we were to Judge by the quality. America appears to be the special breeding ground of the Inventor. The peculiar mixture of all races In that fortunate land appears to have produced a kind of superman who alone Is capable of creating such diabolical inventions as the cash register and the automatic telephone exchange.”