An Essay On the Boilers of Steam Engines Their Calculation Construction And
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Owing to our present infamous patent laws, most useful inventions are over-ridden and borne down by a host of imitators, and patent plagiarists, who, like other copyists, mostly copy best the worst parts of the picture, and who have done more perhaps to check the progress of improve- ment than all other causes put together, by a system of legalised robbery upon every inventor who may be induced to attempt in this way to reap a reward for his ingenuity and industry. Second only to this cause in ...discouraging invention, is the occasional conduct of that portion of the periodical press usually devoted to record the progress of science. While the editors of some of those works confine their lucubrations^ to scientific and literary matters alone, they are in their proper sphere ; but all attempts to influence 124 SEDIMENT COLLECTORS. public opinion respecting new inventions in the multifarious operations of practical mechanics by writers who, although calling themselves practical men, never perhaps handled a work tool of any kind in their lives, save a pen or a pair of scissors, must, to say the least, be as injurious to the much cried up interests of science as they manifestly are to those of honest industry.
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