The stock market crash - and after

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Identifikator:: 1815583320

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-204544

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Fisher, Irving http://d-nb.info/gnd/118533541

Title:: The stock market crash - and after

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: Macmillan

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: XXVI, 286 S.; graph. Darst

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VIII. Scientific Research and Invention

Collection:: Economics Books

Scientific Research and Invention 127 is so great that at this rate of gain it would take from five to six years to make the work practically current, or so that an applicant who is paying the fees for performing the work may obtain an official action with reasonable promptness.” In this report the Commissioner, Thomas E. Robertson, said: “Tt is a noteworthy fact that more patents have been granted during the last ten years than during the 100 years from President Washington's inaugu- ration in 1789 until President Harrison's inaugura- tion in 1889.” Daily News of Inventions Pick up the daily paper, and note the multiplying reports of new inventions and processes and business methods that are the outcome of scientific research. Almost every day's paper gives half a dozen new instances showing how inventions and the exploita- tion of them through the use of capital are affect- ing savings, producing short cuts and increased pro- ductivity. A cable despatch from Berlin tells of a new method of producing synthetic helium by which Germany may be freed from the United States, where the chief natural supply exists. The same despatch announces an interoceanic line of Zeppelins, which will require capital. The same paper tells of successful experiments in perfecting the seadrome; so that the model will be succeeded by a real sea- drome, weighing some 40,000 tons, to be towed out 350 miles from shore and anchored. The account adds that it will cost $1,500,000,000. Money must

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