Excerpt from Patents and the Useful Arts

If the reader feels inclined to smile at the title chosen for this little work, and to doubt the existence of any very intimate alliance between patents and the advancement of the useful arts, I ask him to follow me while I take a rapid survey of the rise and progress of those arts since the latter part of the reign of James I., and note their connection with patents.

The reader need not be alarmed, I shall take long and rapid strides, and shall, as far as the task before me will permit, avoid tedious historical particulars and tiresome statistics, and as I proceed shall make an effort to entertain the reader, hoping at the same time to impart information of an interesting character on a subject concerning which there has recently been much discussion among thinking men.

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