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capitalist would invest a penny in it. He went
back to America, and to-day the ‘Bell
System ”’ of telephony has more capita] than
any other organization in the world.

There was Holland, the Irishman who
invented the submarine. He offered it to the
Admiralty and he was turned down. He
offered it to many countries, and none gave it
any appreciation. His first submarine was
regarded as entirely useless for any purpose
of war.

There was Maxim, the inventor of the
machine-gun. He came to England with his
gun, which could shoot 600 shots a minute ;
and we thought so little of it that we allowed
all other nations to obtain it.

There was Marconi. Away back in the
’go’s Marconi gave a lecture in Toynbee Hall,
London. He sent a wireless message from one
end of the hall to another ; but no one, either
in the Government or elsewhere, regarded his
invention as anything more than an interesting
toy.

There were the Wright brothers—the original
 inventors of the aeroplane. In 1904,
Wilbur Wright came to London. He and his
brother had made more than 100 flights. He
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