Word: patently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business of issuing patents became a bit too onerous a sideline for statesmen. The Patent Office* was created and began to number the patents it issued. Between 1836 and 1893 ?57 years?500,000 patents were counted out; between 1893 and 1911?18 years?another 500,000 patents were granted. Last week?13 years since the 1,000,000th patent was granted?the 1,500,000th was issued...
...000th patent was Simon Lake, inventor and pioneer in submarine experiment. His original submarine, the Argonaut, is still in the yard of the Lake Torpedo Boat Co., of Bridgeport. His latest, No. 1,500,000, is described under SCIENCE...
Telling of its 1,500,000th, the Patent Office pointed with pride to its record...
...Copies of all these patents are on file in the Patent Office and form the permanent record for search purposes for use of the examining corps to determine novelty of applications for patents. Copies are also kept in stock for the purpose of sale so that they may be available to the public, practically at cost. Such copies number about 50,000,000 and occupy about 20 linear miles of single shelving in the Patent Office, over 200,000 copies of such patents being sold each month for 10¢ each...
...Journal of the American Medical Association, by a testimonial presentation dinner. Thanks to Dr. Simmons, The Journal has passed from a circulation of 8,000 to 82,000, reaching more than half the physicians in the U. S. Dr. Simmons is also credited with inaugurating the attack on fraudulent patent medicines and nostrums, with stimulating the advance in medical education, with first providing the facts that led to the "safe and sane July 4" campaign, and with decreasing the number of typhoid deaths in American cities...