Every <year about 40,000 inventions are sent into the Patent- Office, in London. Hundreds of parcels containing,' perhaps, stupendous -, discoveries, lie awaiting the scrutiny'of the examination staff. Women send in the mOst ingenious gadgets and labour-saving devices, and< housewives are plentifully prtvided for. The great majority of the inventions are never Been again after they have once entered tho ■Pate.iw-.O2ce, but dreams of huge fortunes cannot be banished by the hopeful legion who hold steadfastly before them such examples as -the, man who" invented the movable collar stud and is stated to have drawn royalties fif. £5000 a year for a long-time,
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 30
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 30
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