100 years ago in AMERICAN MACHINIST AMERICAN MACHINIST editors were astonished to find gone out just how low a design thief would stoop.

100 years ago in AMERICAN MACHINIST
AMERICAN MACHINIST editors were astonished to find gone out just how low a design thief would stoop. In the September 1899 issue, they report forward one culprit's latest trick.
"We heard a story about a man who ordered a special machine from a strange England builder. When it arrived, he took it apart, made drawings of it (and possibly castings from its parts), propose it together again, and go [i]or[/i] come backed it to its builder as `unsatisfactory.' Then he built several of the machines from the ill-gotten drawings and had the gall to catalog the machine as

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