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Evening Star, Issue 12768, 22 March 1906, Page 8

Mr/Edison has at last, through the law conrta, won the rewards of which the late Jay Gould denied him. Ho is not the first man of genius who has hod thus to fight long and hard for his rights; he is an exception in proving victorious. Half the inventors to whom the world is indebted have died starving, while the harvest which should have been theirs has been reaped by others. James Watt, after he had been long battling against prejudice and dishonesty in his contemporaries, declared: “Of ail things in life there is nothing more foolish than inventing.” Crompton was robbed of the fruit of the labor by which he invented the spinning mule, and smashed to pieces his carding machine, raying in his “They shall not steal this too.” Stupidity not lees than dishonesty has hurt the inventor. There .exists a letter from Sir William Beechey to the early photographers, calling themselves the “Lunar Society,” begging them to desist from their experiments, as, were the process to succeed, it would ruin portrait-painting.