THE OOLOGIST. 



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Progress of Inventions Since 1845. 



>f the SciENTIl'IC AmKHICAX lU'WS 



iftc.y c.stiiljli.slKMl ;i Ixircjiu for flic 



Ihc year nf 184') tlic jji-csciit nwiic 

 p:il)ci- loiniiicncfd its ])iii)licati()iis, and son 

 ])i"oci!riii<;' of ])a1ciits for iiivi'Utioiis at hoiiir and in forcji^n coiiiitrics. During 

 the year 184.") there wei-e only oO'J i)at('nts issued from tlie IJ. S. Parent OlViee, and 

 tlie "total issue from the estahlislimeiit of the Patent Ollice, u]) to the end of that 

 year, nunilieriMl only 4,^47. 



LJp to the lirst of July this yeai- tiiere have been <4-ranted 40G,4i;]. Showing 

 that since the eommeneenient of the publiealion of the Scientific American 

 there inive heeii issued from the U. S. Patent Oltice 4()2,1(»(> jjatents, and al)out 

 one thii'd nniic api)lieations have been made than have be<'n granted, showing 

 the ingenuity of our jjeople to be ])henomenal, and mut-h greater than e\er the 

 enormous nnnd)er of ))atents issued indicates. Probably a good many of our 

 I'eaders have ha<I l>usincss transacted thiough the ollices of the Scientific 

 Aaiekican, in New York or Wasliingt(»n, and are familiar with INIunn & Co. \s 

 doin<i" business, Imt those who iiave not will 



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knowuiti' 



sometiiing about this, the olilest patent soliciting firm in this country, ))i'ol)ably 

 in the world. 



Persons visiting the ollices of the Scientific Ameiucan, 801 Broadway-, N. 

 Y., for the first time will Ije .suri)rised, on entering the main office, to find .such 

 an extensive and elegant equipped establishment, with its walnut counters, desks, 

 ami chairs to coi'respoud, and its enormou.s safes, and such a large number of 

 draughtsmen, specification writers, and clei'ks, all busy as bees, reminding one 

 of a large banking or insurance office, with its hundred employees. 



- In conversation with one of the iirm, who had commenced the Inisine.ss of 

 soliciting patents in connection with the pul)licatiou of the Scientific Aiikkican, 

 moi'c than forty years ago, I learnetl that his firm had made a])plication for 

 patents for u])wards of one hundred thousand inventors in the United States, 

 and several thousands in different foreign countries, and had tiled as many cases 

 in the Patent Otlice in a single month as there were patents issued during the 

 entire first year of their bnsine.ss career. This gentlemen had seen the Patent 

 Olfice gow from a sapling to a sturdy oak, and be modestly hinted that many 

 thought the Scientific A.mekican, with its large circulation, had ]jeformed no 

 mean share in stimulating inventions ami ad\ ancing the interests of the Patent 

 Olfice. But it is not alone the patent soliciting that (K-cu]}ies the attention of thi' 

 one hundred ])eisons emjjloyed l)p IMunn & Co., but a large number ai'e engaged 

 on the four puijlications issued weekly and monthly from their office, 8(51 Broad- 

 way, N. Y., viz.: The Scientific Amehican, the Scientific Ameuican Sup- 

 iM.E.MENT, the J]\port Edition of the Scientific Amekican, and the Architects 

 and I5uilders Edition of the Scientifk Ameiucan. The first two publications 

 are issued every week, and the^itter two, the first of everj^ month. 



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