Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Successful Invention
CHAPTER 2 Machine Designing
CHAPTER 3 Financing a New Invention
CHAPTER 4 Marketing a New Invention
CHAPTER 5 Determining the Selling Price of a Newly Invented Article
CHAPTER 6 Office Management and Business Policies
CHAPTER 7 Divers Ways of Exploiting an Invention
CHAPTER 8 Useful Pointers on Successful Manufacturing
CHAPTER 9 Warning to Prospective Inventors
CHAPTER 10 Advice to Inventors on Inventions
CHAPTER 11 General Definition and Classification of Inventions
CHAPTER 12 The Glory of Invention and Pictures of Celebrated Inventors and Scientists
CHAPTER 13 How to Invent
CHAPTER 14 How to Make Sketches and Specifications
CHAPTER 15 The Necessity of Competent Engineering for Successful Invention
CHAPTER 16 Pert Pointers for Prospective Inventors That Will Be Found Helpful
CHAPTER 17 Protection of an Invention
CHAPTER 18 Various Ways Employed to Cheat and Rob Inventors
CHAPTER 19 Government Connivance at the Despoiling of a Poor Inventor
CHAPTER 20 Old and Common Tricks Employed to "Do" an Inexperienced Inventor
CHAPTER 21 The Root of the Evil
CHAPTER 22 Comparative Legal Protection Afforded to Mental and Physical Property
CHAPTER 23 The Utter Helplessness of a Poor Inventor to Obtain Justice
CHAPTER 24 Public Attitude Towards Him Who Steals Physical and to the One Who Steals Mental Property
CHAPTER 25 Present Available Means of Protecting an Invention
CHAPTER 26 Comparative Government Treatment A Bounty for Raising "Sugar Beets," but a Tax on Inventions
CHAPTER 27 Society's Debt to the Inventor
CHAPTER 28 Comparative Protection Given by the Government
CHAPTER 29 The Law's Definition of Property and Public Policy
CHAPTER 30 The Successful Inventor
CHAPTER 31 Comparative Treatment the World Accords to Them, and Summary
By Henry Robinson
Illustrations by T. M. Fleming
Published by Henry Robinson 41 West 33d Street New York, N. Y. 1911
COPYRIGHT, 1911 BY H. ROBINSON 41 West 33d Street New York, N. Y.
