Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The New Harry and Lucy: A Story of Boston in the Summer of 1891
HE patent laws of the United States and of most other countries require that a person who offers an invention as new to the examiners in the Patent Office shall state first what he does not claim and then what he does claim. That is, the inventor is made to say: I do not claim the invention of carrying passengers by steam; that invention has been made already. I do claim that I have made such or such a change in the applica tion of steam-power.
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