The ferrotype and how to make it - The Grian Press

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THE FERROTYPE.
down ; let the tax on whisky be put at $2.00 a
gallon and we see the whole force of the government
paralyzed, and whisky sold in defiance of
law at less than the tax. So, too, with any pat-
ented article of great usefulness, let the price be
fixed so high by the patentee as to render in-
fringement profitable, notwithstanding the risk;
and infringements will be made. So it was with
Wing^s Multiplying Camera box, manufactured of
the best materials expressly selected for the pur-
pose, under the eye of a practical photographer
and mechanic, serviceable and durable; the price
was fixed so high, and even more than that, the ne-
cessity of procuring a town or county right with
the box, rendered the manufacture of infringements
so profitable, that thousands were made
and sold with impunity all over the country. As
a natural consequence, lawsuits followed ; in one
of which. Wing, of Boston, against C. C. Schoon-
maker, of Troy, Kew York, after having been
carried to the Supreme Court of the United States,
the patent received its quietus by a tie vote of
eight judges, the Chief-Justice being absent.
It is to be hoped that the above may be a
warning to inventors who may be inclined to
ask too much for their valuable inventions, as is
in general the case, especially with photographers.
Multiplying Cameras may now be had of a
great variety of patterns, most of which are as
serviceable and useful in small galleries as tht
best made. The varieties most used, however