368 



COMB FOUNDATION. 



manufactured in 1875, by a German, Mr. F. Weiss, very 

 probably on an imported machine. Mr. A. I. Koot, to whom 



Fig. 115. 



THE OKIGIN'AI. '•root" MILL, 



(From Boot'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 puttin;,^ in practice 

 the ideas of another, he is uot entitle I to any credit for it. But he, "whose in- 

 quisitiveness has discovered the \ alue of an in\ ention, and "whose energy has 

 put it into practice, is almost as necessaiy and nsefol to the world as the orig- 

 inal inventor himself. 



