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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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The USSR's inventions commission, active for 3 years, received 22,063 projects, with about 4,000 valuable inventions patented. Foreign inventions dropped from 75% pre-revolution to 10% now, with Soviet citizens contributing 90%. Worker inventors rose from 244 in 1924 to 1,056 in 1927.
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MOSCOW (By mail).—The commission in charge of inventions has been 3 years in existence. During that period it received 22,063 projects from inventors. About 8% were absolutely useless. Of the others, some were of minor importance. About 4,000 are valuable and recognized. They are of much importance and were patented. Four thousand inventions in the course of 3 years is an enormous figure.
Before the revolution, about 75% of all inventions were by foreigners, primarily by Germans. Now the inventions by foreigners constitute only 10% of the total, the other 90% are by Soviet citizens. The number of worker inventors increases continuously. In 1924 there were 244 inventions by factory workers. In 1925-26 the number of 617 and in 1927, 1,056.
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1924 1927
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about 4,000 valuable inventions patented; foreign inventions reduced to 10%; worker inventors increased to 1,056 in 1927.
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The commission on inventions, existing for 3 years, received 22,063 projects, 8% useless, some minor, about 4,000 valuable and patented. Pre-revolution, 75% inventions by foreigners (mostly Germans); now 90% by Soviet citizens, with rising worker inventors: 244 in 1924, 617 in 1925-26, 1,056 in 1927.