CHAPTER XII. 



PLANS OF THE INVENTOR. 



The author adopts the plan of granting licenses to manufacturers, who stamp all articles made 

 under the various patents with the author's name. Advantages and disadvantages resulting 

 from the plan adopted. Remarks on the want of security to inventors by the present patent 

 laws. New articles to be presented to the public. The utility of these articles iu the advance- 

 ment of education, and preservation of hfe, health and property. 



It may seem to be of little consequence to the public to know 

 what are the plans of an individual, but it may be of importance 

 to him that they should be known, when their execution depends 

 upon the co-operation of others. If they are reasonable and 

 just, and the interests of others as well as his own are involved, 

 especially if their utility be susceptible of demonstration, the 

 interests of the subject may be advanced by their publication. 



Enough has been said of the obstacles which were encountered 

 in first bringing the discovery of vulcanized gum-elastic to the 

 notice of the public, and in its successful application to the 

 articles that were first made of the substance ; but it is thought 

 that justice to the subject demands that a statement should be 

 made of the causes that have continued to operate, since the 

 time of the discovery, against the progress of the art. 



Previous to the discovery of the vulcanizing process before 

 described, and for several years after the writer began his ex- 

 pei'iments, he entertained the idea of carrying on the business, 

 and of establishing a reputation for himself as a manufacturer of 

 gum-elastic. 



Subsequent to the discovery, however, upon taking a survey 



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