The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-02
FORTUNES LURK
IN THREE IDEAS
Simple Little Things That
Haven't Been Invented Yet
MIGHT BRING MILLIONS
Somebody Should Get Busy and work
Them Out-Non-Refilla Bottle
One of the Problems to
Be Solved.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun
There are lots of chances for inventors
still. 1t is an old saying that the simplest
devices are the ones which prove most
nroftable to their orignators. the nelo
Is not yet exhausted.
For instance it is asserted that the
yenins who conceives process for load
Ing coal on ocean going steamships when
will effect a saving of one-halt cent
ton over the present methods employed
ran get check for $1,00O,00O for his idea
the minute he is ready to demonstrate the
practicability of his plan.
But. valuable as would be such an idea,
II is a question whether it would bring
larger price than a method OF treating
straw hats to prevent them from chang
ing color with the weather.
There is also a demand in the American
household as well as in large canning es-
Establishments for an effective and rapidly
working device for sealing cans fully
hfty patents have been granted for con-
triyances aimed to meet this want, but the
ideal has not yet been reached
A typewriter that will do its work with
out the present nerve racking clicking and
inventor and would be as great boon
to humanity as a speechless barber.
In the airship field there is ample OPP
nortunity for fortune making, and the
sub-marine boat can still be improved
upon profitably. A flying machine that
will go up and come down and subma-
rine that will go down and come up at the
pleasure of the operator are nightly to
be desired and would be of vast financial
value.
The genius who contrves a motor ac
tuated solely by the rays of the sun or the
waves of the sea, and of practical use,
is assured of a fortune and a niche in the
Hall of Fame.
Substitute for Leather.
Shoe manufacturers have long sought
n neat and durable substitute for leather,
and they are willing to pay handsomely
the man who solves the riddle for them.
Millions of dollars awaits the man who
inyents a substitute for coal. One of the
biggest bills of the world of civilization is
its fuel bill Cut this down trife a year
by any new means and fortune surpass-
ing Rockefeller's will be the reward.
device that will entirely oblterate the
grating mechanical sounds of the talk
ing machine will find a dozen bidders with
certified checks waiting to purchase it,
The man who deyises a method of clean
ing ships bottom without docking 1t Will
never have to work another day in his
life and can take trip abroad in his own
private yacht if he desires to. do so.
1t is estimated that millions of dollars
are locked up in waste of various kinds
from factories. Any scheme that will eff
fectually utilize this waste and save the
millions will fill the Golfers of the inven-
tor with coin.
Probably five hundred patents have been
secured on non-reusable boxes and five
times as many on non-refllable bottles,
but no one of these meets all the require
ments. The inventor of the perfect thing
in either of these classes will live on the
fat of the land for the rest of his days.
Automatic chicken pickers and oyster
shuckers are in demand.
One of the ideas upon which the inyen-
tor may exercise his ability with profta-
ble results if he is successful is an auto