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How to Become an Inventor · Aaron A. Warford — chapter 16 of 16 · ~1,359 words · public domain

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Transcriber’s Notes:

Punctuation has been made consistent.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

The notation 1-2 for fractions has been standardized to the current convention 1/2.

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