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BIG FORTUNES WON BY TINY INVENTIONS (Continued from page 124) muir made the electrons do their stuff with a minimum of interference from air mole- cules and thereby made the tube more effi- cient as an electrical oscillator. For fix years, the Langmuir patent was the bone of contention in a scries of heated legal fights, and only a few months ago it was invalidated by the Supreme Court. While granting that Langmuir's tiny change had produced a remarkable improvement, the Court found that the idea of a high vacuum was not Langmuir's, but had been conceived by an engineer named Lilienfcld as far back as 1910. OF AhL improvements brought about with- out making any change whatever in the body of an existing mechanism, the most sen- sational doubtless is William Eibel's perfection of the Fourdrinier paper making machine, used mostly for the manufacture of news- print. Here an industry was revolutionized by a change even smaller than the hole in the glass-molding pipe. All Eibcl did was to jack up the Fourdrinier machine twelve inches! This accelerated the down-flow of the fluid pulp to .such an extent that, when the machine was speeded up in proportion, production was increased from twenty to thirty per cent. In other words, iiibel increased the output from 450 feet of paper per minute to 700 feet, and pointed the way by which paper could be turned out at the rate of 1.000 feet per minute. This slight and almost ridiculously simple change saves from $25,000 to ^;35,000 on technical installation, as the same quantity of paper can be made with one-fourth less machinery, and has radically cut the price of paper. Incidentally, it has made Eibel a rich man. Eibel's patent, too, came before the Supreme Court, and, like Lenke's, was upheld by the late Chief Justice Taft. Though the invention was "as .simple as water running down hill," .said Taft, it had greatly improved the art of paper making and, therefore, deserved to be rewarded with a patent. 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