FLOOD OF INVENTIONS.
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 provided for. The majority of the inventions are never seen again after they have once entered the Patent Office, 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 of £SOOO § yeas for 9 long .time*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20520, 22 March 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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106FLOOD OF INVENTIONS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20520, 22 March 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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