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Inventing for Boys

Chapter 43: FOOTNOTES
By A. Frederick Collins
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A practical, illustrated manual for young inventors that explains how to conceive, develop, and monetize mechanical, electrical, chemical, and electro-chemical inventions. It guides readers through idea generation, drawing and modeling techniques, experiment design, patent procedure, and building working prototypes, then addresses manufacturing, funding, forming companies, and marketing and selling inventions. Additional chapters suggest project ideas, survey notable inventions and their commercial outcomes, and summarize legal protections, fees, and terminology. Practical checklists, diagrams, and appendices support hands-on work and provide reference material for turning simple concepts into working, marketable devices.

FOOTNOTES

[1] Ro is a universal language invented by the Rev. Edward P. Foster of Marietta, Ohio. According to the New York Times the frogs have talked ro from the first and any child ought to be able to learn it in less than twice the lifetime of Old Parr.

[2] For a further explanation of these very interesting phenomena, read Modern Views of Electricity, by Sir Oliver Lodge.

[3] The pseudotriakis microdon is one of the rarest species of sharks. It is a small toothed nurse shark and is known from only two specimens, one of which turned up on the coast of Portugal and the other on Long Island.

[4] “Fear God and take your own part,”—Roosevelt.

[5] See Chapter XII on Design Patents.

[6] The italics are not mine.

Transcriber’s Notes:

The half-title page has been removed.

Variations in spelling, hyphenation, and accents remain as in the original unless noted below.

  • Page 34, “AB” changed to “A B” (“as shown at A B”).
  • Page 140, “incoporation” changed to “incorporation” (“the subscribers to the certificate of incorporation”).
  • Page 140, period changed to semicolon after “the amount of cash must be stated.”
  • Page 144, comma added after “(a) by personal solicitation.”
  • Page 178, “sensative” changed to “sensitive” (“and impress the sensitive area of his brain”).
  • Page 182, period added after “Fig” (“see Fig. 103”).
  • Page 203, “webb” changed to “web” (“The first web printing press”).
  • Page 233, “1000” changed to “1,000.”
  • Page 234, “1,6093” changed to “1.6093.”
  • Page 248, “Florine” changed to “Fluorine.”
  • Page 253, “operate” changed to “Operate” (“See Operate”).
  • Page 261, period changed to comma after “of mechanical movements.”
  • Page 263, “Ellipose” changed to “Ellipse.”
  • Page 264, “individual” changed to “Individual” (“Individual electric motors”).
  • Page 266, comma added after “Metric.”
  • Page 266, comma added after “Model.”
  • Page 266, comma added after “Models.”
  • Page 267, comma added after “Partnership.”
  • Page 267, comma added after “Patent.”
  • Page 267, comma added after “Patents.”
  • Page 268, superfluous comma removed in “Pseudotriakis microdon.”