HOW TO INVENT: BY THOMAS A. EDISON.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14141, 26 February 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

HOW TO INVENT: BY THOMAS A. EDISON.

1 Sir Edison writes as follows: "How do I go about inventing a contrivance P Well, everything requites different treatment. Igoatit in every way that I can think out. This multiplied attack Boon simmers down until I get a composite, idea of something which I is a combination of all that I have I thought of, or else the one feasible I idea which seems to discount all the [ rest. " Having" once got started on what I think is the right track I keep up the pace until the goal is reached. The only .thing, therefore, I can Bay I to the young inventor is to go and do likewise. There is one piece of ad- ! vice I can give however, when a man starts to invent, let, him do so with bis mind free from all knowledge of what has been done already in the pari ticular field he is investigating. For instance, if I am about to work out something, I never read about it, nor do I inquire what has been done on it by other inventors. Knowledge of this kind is. almost certain to prove a snag in the path of. the inventor. He gets into the>cut made by his predecessors,' and stops shere they are stopped." " The above- remarkstfrom Mr Edison are supplied as by. Henry,Hughes (A. R. Holdship), Patent Agent, Christchurch, the'oldest established firm of patent agents in the Colony." TimaniL agent,- Mr J. E. S. -Jackson, Stafford street. ... „ *■ * - - DIFFERENT, TOIQTHBiRS. > , jt Chamberlain'sV'Tablets " not i act upon the Qgg£ibtav; laxatives Bu6h< strenV gthenv t even: the weakest; stomach so Jv it >S«R.iBSSI^ rl y, ■aCplnplaHly"perform Tablets I never! <cf **ny < Wg*