Excerpt from The Granite Monthly, Vol. 10: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to Literature, History, and State Progress; Jan., 1887 During his residence in Europe, perhaps on the principle that meces sity is the mother of invention, his attention was called to the manner in which pigments were preserved. The first we learn of such preparation, the paints when ground in oil were tied up in small parcels of prepared blad der, or something that would exclude the air. Afterwards tinfoil was used' in the form of a tube. This was an improvement: still the paints, as soon as opened, would begin to dry, and thus inconvenience and waste were the result. Mr. Rand, feeling the need of a better mode of preserv ing artists' colors, gave thought to the subject; and the tube fastened with a screw, now in common use' on both sides of the Atlantic, was the result. Few artists of our dav, as thev mix their colors on the palette, are aware to whom thev are indebted for this very great'bonvenience. Mr. Rand secured a patent for his invena tion in England; I think also in France and America. J For a time he received quite a royalty for the use of his invention, enough to have made him independent; but, alas I he could not escape the fatality which attends so many men whose inven tions have blest the world. At the time when his patent was fast secur ing the patronage of artists, .and he was receiving a fair remuneration for its use, a man from America, with letters of introduction, appeared at his studio in London. He came to introduce and sell a recent invention of his, known as the aeolian attach ment to the pianoforte. He had sold the patent in America for one hun7ofin Rand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.