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Progress Of Inyentions Since ls4o.

Progress of Inventions Since 1916.
In the year 1916 the present owners of
the Scientific american newspaper COM
menced its publication, and soon after es-
tablished a bureau for the procuring of
patents for inventions at homo and in for
eign countries. During the year 1876
there were only 500 patents issued from
the U. s. Patent Office, and the total issue
from the establishment of the Patent
Office, up TO the end OF that year, num-
bored only 4,s47.
Up to the first of July this year there
have been granted 406,4 Alb. Showing
that since the commencement of tho pub
LEGATION of the Scientific american there
have been issued from the U. s.. Patent
Office 402,l66 patents, and about one
third more applications have been made
than have been granted, showing the in
genulty Of our people to be phenomenal,
and much greater than even the enormous
number Of patents issued indicates. Pro-
badly good many of our readers have
had business transacted through the offices
OF the Scientific american, in New York
or Washington, and are familiar with
Mum &c Co. 5 mode Of doing business,
but those who have not will be interested
in knowing something about this, the
Oldest pa.ent soliciting firm in this coun-
tru nrnhn hlv In the xynrld
Persons visiting the offices OF the Scie,a-
| tito american, 1851 Broadway, N. ",
| for the first time will be surprised, on
entering the office, to find such an exten-
sive and elegantly equipped establishment
with its walnut counters, desks, and
chairs to correspond, and its enormous
safes, and such q large number OF
draughtsmen, specification writer's, and
clerks, all busy as bees, reminding one OF
a large banking or insuring Office, with
its hundred employees.
In conversation with one of the firm,
who had commenced the business of so
Letting patents In connection with the
publication of the Scientific American
more than forty years ago, learned tina
his firm had made application for patents
for upward of one hundred thousand in
ventors In the United States, and severa
thousands In different foreign countries
and had filed as many cases In the Paten
Office In single month as there wer'
patents issued during the entire first yea
OF their business career. This gentleman
had seen the Patent Office grow from |
sapling to a sturdy oak, and he modest,
limited that many thought the Scientif
american, with its large circulation, hat
performed no mean share in stimulating
Inventions and advancing the interests o
the Patent Office. But 1t is not alone TIL
patent soliciting that occupies the atten
ton OF the one hundred persons employed
by Mum 80 Co., but large number arr
engaged on the four publications ISSUED
weekly and monthly from their Office, 36l
Broadway, N. Y, viz. The Scientific
american, the Scientific american Sup
a,tement, the Export Edition Of the Scien
ttac american, and the Architects ant
Builders Edition OF the Scientific Anaeg'i
can. The first two publications are ISSUED
every week, and the latter two, the frs
OF every month.