BRITISH PATENTS OF 1909.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 746, 19 February 1910, Page 13

BRITISH PATENTS OF 1909.

OVER 30,000, - ■ To what arc English inventors tnrning their minds to-day? The records at the Patent Office show that the branches of invention which received tho most. increased attention- during 1909 were aeronautics, motors for road, vehicles, and advertising schemes. , •A few years ago the individual, who entered the ( Patent; Offioe with an application relating to a flying machine ran the risk of being regarded':'as a : , harmless lunatic."' It is yet too early for any exact classification to be available of the various applications, made .during the past , year, but tho'index for' the first- three quarters shows that close upon a thousand inventions relating .;to 'aeronautics; were brought to the notico. of ,'tha. authorities dnring.tho, t^-elvo./nonths^,.. 1 r : . :..'.The motor.inventiqns; year, were mainly limited to the perfection of accessories. - . "Poster,-mothers"—so' reads one surprising entry in the index of applicabut, tho patents .sought for. prove: onlyto'be for inventions ;wheroby chickens and other young; may bo' artificially reared. . . ;

, The large-fortunes won':by, the "earlier inventors . of: curling pins'.may--in:, some measure' be -responsible for the dozen applications mado - during the _ year , for patents , /governing J,similar , Steam and gas engines attracted about the same! number of inventors as usual, but the wide field of electricity was exploited very ( much : more than in the previous year . ; .. : In all, 30,607 applications , were received, an increase of . more than 2000. on the figures'for the'previous .year. :