 But a few months reduced me to the cruel necessity" either of destroying my machine altogether, or giving it up to the public. To destroy it I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means...  Great Inventors and Their Inventions - Seite 103von Frank Puterbaugh Bachman - 1918 - 272 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1864 - 492 Seiten
...giving it up to the public. To destroy it I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public." He trusted to the manufacturers to remunerate him. They did, indeed, draw... | |
 | Gilbert James French - 1859 - 340 Seiten
...giving it up to the public. To destroy it I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public."73 The gift to the public was however by no means unconditional. Having discovered,... | |
 | Gilbert James French - 1860 - 342 Seiten
...giving it up to the public. To destroy it I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public."46 The gift to the public was however by no means unconditional. Having discovered,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 Seiten
...could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long was cruel. I had b-mmel Crumpton. no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying it, I gave it to the public." Mauufacturers had come about him with tempting promises, and had persuaded him to give up his secret,... | |
 | 106 Seiten
...circumstances it seemed impossible to retain the secret of his machine. In one of his papers he says, " I had no patent nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public." According to one statement Samuel derived £50 for giving up his "Mule;"... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 946 Seiten
...it up to the public. To destroy it I could not think of ; to give up that for which I had laboured so long was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means...preference to destroying it, I gave it to the public." Manufacturers had persuaded him to give up his secret, upon the condition, recited in a formal document,... | |
 | John Brown - 1868 - 58 Seiten
...giving it up to the public. To destroy it I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying I gave it up to the public. The principle of this machine was so foreign to any other method of spinning... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1870 - 954 Seiten
...it up to the public. To destroy it I could not think of ; to give up that for which I had laboured so long was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means...preference to destroying it, I gave it to the public." Manufacturers had persuaded him to give up his secret, upon the condition, recited in a formal document,... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 Seiten
...giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.' Many, perhaps the majority of inventors, have lacked the means to purchase... | |
 | Francis Espinasse - 1877 - 526 Seiten
...giving it up to the public. To destroy it I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying I gave it to the public," — an act of imprudent generosity, which, under the circumstances, is almost... | |
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