The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1911-08-17
rHE MIILIoNrH PATENT.

UNMARKED BY any pQmp or cere'
mony and With a lack of ostentatiou
that seemed totally inappropriate to
1.-THE Importance Of the occasion. the
one millionth patent was issued on
Tuesday, August Sth.
The wheel of chance which decided
the recipient of the epoch-making
patent-for the record number was
awarded to the patent which hap
pened to be on the top of the pile
when the numbering machine passed
the o99 500 fgure-decided in favor
of Frank b. Holton of Akron. Ohio,
who had applied for exclusive rights
to manufacture and sell an improve
ment on inflated automobile tires. It
was fitting that this patent, in itself
a monument to progress, should
have been awarded to an improve
ment on the automobile. for there is
probably no single recent invention
which has done so much to mark
American progress or to show the
world the prosperity of the United
States.
France comes nearest to the Unit
ed States in the number of licensed
inventions. 49, 900 being approx
mately the number of her patents
Great Britain is next with 416. 900 4;
Germany has issued 256.OO0; Bel
GUM, 22S, 900; Canada, 100, 900;
Italy and Sardinia, "a 900, and Aus
tria-Hungary, $4,000. All the 9TH
er countries of the world have issued
less than 10000 patents each, so
that the United States may easily
be said to have licensed more inven-
tons than any two nations put to-
gether, and that her total exceeds
that of Great Britain, Germany, Bel
GUM and Italy by several thousand.
Perhaps it is because the tAmeri-
can is truly a cosmopolite, mixture
of all the bloods of the world, that
this nation has so far surpassed 9TH
ers in inventions, but true it is that
the majority Of the important dis
coveries Of science and the greatest
labor-saving machines first saw the
light Of day in the United States.-
Scientific American.
TALKING MOTION PICTURES NEXT.
For several years efforts have
been made to create a perfect synch-
ronism between the moving picture
and the photograph, in order that
stage presentations Of plays and
operas could be reproduced. The
spectacle has already been present.
ed of famous stage idol, appearing
in theater of high prices of adj
mission, while but a stones throw
away perfect counterfeit presenta-
ton both as to voice and action could
be seen for FIVE cents. Mr.. Edison
has prophesied that the day is near
when tn. working man viii present
himself in front of moving picture
theater, deposit his dime, and wit
ness a reproduction Of scenes from
grand opera, such as are presented
at the Metropolitan Opera House in
New York.
BROOKS COMET OF 1911.
This comet, discovered by DR..
William r. Brooks at Smith Obser-
yatory, Geneva, N. Y, on July
10th, has been observed on every
clear night by its discoverer, and at
many other observatories Throughout
he world. On August 9th it was
about seven degrees north of the
'tar Beta in the constellation Pega-
nus, from which point the comet is
moving northward about one degree
tally.
The comet is coming nearer and
growing brighter, and promises to
'e an interesting object. 1t is now
1isible in a moderate-sized telescope,
md will be observable for several
months.