Arizona republican., 1906-04-30
WELL KNOWN INVENTOR
 REWSITING PHOENIX
Hr. and Hrs. BentIy Rinehart Spsnd-
 ing Their Honeymoon Here.

Mir. and Mrs. Bentley Rinehart of Camden, N. J.. arrived here a few days ago on their wedding trip and are stop ping at the Hotel Adams. They will be here and in this vicinity for several weeks. Mir. Rinehart is an Arizona boy, having spent his childhood OH farm few miles west of Phoenix, and his boyhood in this city, where he be- came a very competent machinist un- der the instruction of L. D. Copeland | then a resident of Phoenix and since
 then an occasional visitor. When Mir | Rinehart was married, on April F. he i decided that there was no place in the world he would rather spend his hon :. eymoon than in Arizona, visiting nos l only familiar scenes. but his father and
 other relatives, beside many personal
 friends in this valley. Incidentally he
 has his eye constantly open for busi-
 ness, for there is no young man who { has his head better filled with ideas
 than Mir. Rinehart, who is now entitled
 to be called primarily an inventor. He
 has invented a great many things dur
 ing the last few years, some of which
 have been quite reInunerative and en-
 tirely successful in a practical way
 but like all inventors, he has made nu- merOus failures as well. However, he
 has more ideas in his mind right now
 than he ever had before, some of which
 he hopes will some day be of profit lo
 himself and others, both financially and . otherwise.
 Mir. Rinehart last visited Phoenix two years ago last October, and short ly after returning east again he met
 with a very serious misfortune which cost him many weeks of time and d 1 narrow escape with his life. He was then in the employ of the Victor Talk ing Machine company, as he has been more or less for d great many years. and with which corporation he is still in manner connected. He was then engaged in laboratory work in Cam den and was operating q process in which considerable gasoline was em- ployed Without going into details, an explosion occurred when he was in the
 room alone, setting fire to his clothing and frightfully burning his hands and
 one side of his face. He managed to escape from the room and, running Q hydrant, turned the water on him self, extinguishing the flames, though
 the skin had already slipped off his hands, one of which is still somewhat crippled, though it's use is not de- strOyed. He was also badly burned m spots on his body, and only for the protection of the woOlen clothes he had
 on he would have been burned to death. It was feared at first that he would not recover, but his good constitution and the fact that he had guarded his eyes and closed his mouth, while act ing quickly in the presence of the fire, enabled him to win the contest after many weeks in 9 hospital.
 It has been printed in these columns before that # was MT Rinehart who first made the improvements on the Victor machine that gave it superiority over it's competitions in cIearness of tone and perfection of operation. He has since made numerous improve mcnts, and his connection with the company now is that he is continually experimenting, and whenever he SC cures an improvement in any feature the company stands ready to buy it.
 When he makes a failure he naturally gets nothing but experience, but he prefers that arrangement to any salary that might be paid him, for it is per haps equally as profitable in the end and in the meantime he can be engaged on many other projects as well. He now has a laboratory of his own across the street but near to the Vic tor works, where he is engaged when at home, experimenting with ideas of