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Would Mark Twain have preferred to be an
inventor rather than a writer?


While we´re all familiar with the writings of Mark Twain, many people don´t know that he was highly involved with inventions, both as an inventor himself and as an investor in other people´s inventions.

Newspaper Connection for Students:

1. Search through The Daytona Beach News-Journal each day for the next 7 days to find stories of other people who, like Mark Twain, had more than one major job in their careers. How did one job have an effect on the other job?

2. For each person, explain what you think was his or her most important job - the one for which they´re known, or another job they held at a different time. Write your answers in your notebook or scrapbook.



THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD´NHEAD WILSON
Dawson´s Landing was a slaveholding town, with a rich, slave-worked grain and pork country back of it. The town was sleepy and comfortable and contented. It was fifty years old, and was growing slowly-- very slowly, in fact, but still it was growing. Read the story...



Chapter Four

On the Web:

· Patent and Trademark Office Kids´ Page
· Twain´s Investment in The Paige Compositor
· Twain, Technology, and the Patent Office
· The History of Microfilm: 1839 To The Present
· Mark Twain


Serial Story: INVENTION MYSTERIES
This story is part of the Invention Mysteries series by author Paul Niemann. The Invention Mysteries book reveals the little-known stories behind 47 well-known inventions.

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