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Progress of Inventions Since 1845. 



In tho year of 1845 the pvtseut owners of the Scientific American iitnv.s 

 paper eoninieneed its puljlications, and son after estaljlished a hnvean for the 

 procuring of patents for inventions al home and in foreign eonntries. Unring 

 thej'ear 1845 there wei'e only 503 patents issued from tlie IJ . S. Patent Offiee, and 

 the total issue from the estahlishuient of tlie Patent Office, up to the end of that 

 year, numbered only 4,847. 



Up to the first of Jr.ly this year there ha-.e been granted 406,413. Showing 

 that since the commencement of the publication of the Scientific American 

 there have been, issued from the U. S. Patent Office 402,166 patents, and about 

 one third more applications have !)een made than have been granted, showing 

 the ingenuity of our people to be phenomenal, and much greater than ever the 

 enormous number of patents issued indicates. Proljablj^ a good many of our 

 readers have had l>usiness transacted through the offices (jf the Scientific 

 American, in New York or Washington, aiid are familiar with Mnnn it Co. \s 

 mode of doing business, but those who have not will be interested in knowinu- 

 scmiething al)out this, the oldest patent soliciting firm in this country, prol)ably 

 in the world. 



Persons visiting the offices of the Scientific Ajeekican, 361 Broadway, N. 

 Y., for the first time will be surprised, on entering the main office, to find such 

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

 and (diairs to corresi^ond, and its enormous safes, and such a large numljer of 

 draughtsnuMi, specification Avriters, and clerks, all busy as liees, reminding one 

 of a large banking or insurance office, Vv'ith its hundred employei's. 



In conversation with one of the firm, who had commenced the business of 

 soliciting patents in connection with the publication of the Scientific Amekican, 

 more than forty years ago, I learned that his firm had made application for 

 patents for upwards of one hundred thousand inventors in the United States, 

 and several thousands in different foi'eign countries, and had filed as many cases 

 in the Patent Office in a single month as therd were patents issued during the 

 entire first year oi their business career. This gentlemen had seen the Patent 

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

 thoughv the Scientific American, with its large circulation, had peformed no 

 mean share in stimidating iuAentions and advancing the ijiterests of the Patent 

 Office. But it is not alone the patent soliciting that occupies the attention of the 

 rtne hundred persons employed hp Munn & Co., but a large number are eno-ao-ed 

 on the four publications issued weekly and monthly from their office, 361 Bro7id- 

 way, N. Y., viz.: The Scientific American, the Scientific American Srr- 

 ree:ment, the Export Edition of the Scientific Ajiekican, and the Arciutects 

 and Builders Edition of the Scientific American. The first two publications 

 are issued e\-ery week, and the latter two, the first of everj' month. 



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