368 COMB FOUNDATION. 
manufactured in 1875, by a German, Mr. F. Weiss, very 
probably on an imported machine. Mr. A.I. Root, to whom 
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THE ORIGINAL ‘** ROOT?’ MILL. 
(From Root’s ‘‘A. B. C.’’) 
the credit is due* of popularizing the invention the world 
over manufactured a large roller-mill, in February, 1876, 
* Some people think that when a man has made money by putting in practice 
the ideas of another, he is not entitled to any credit forit. But he, whose in- 
quisitiveness has discovered the value of an invention, and whose energy has 
put it into practice, is almost as necessary and useful to the world as the orig- 
inal inventor himeelf, 
