The Inventions of the Idiot

"What happens when a brilliant but eccentric tinkerer sets his mind on improving the conditions of mankind through the power of science? John Kendrick Bangs' follow-up to The Idiot details this one-of-a-kind inventor's ideas -- some brilliant, some batty -- in this eminently readable romp."@en
"The idiot is the same old idiot, if a trifle worn. As an inventive idiot he is in his element although of all his numerous inventions he complains that none has been realized. Probably there is a deep psychological reason for that for they were all of the ""Dreamaline"" sort. For a few cents everyone was to be able to be what he wanted to be, the reasoning of the idiot being that "" if you feel like a millionaire you are as happy as a millionaire; happier in fact, for you are not even bothered by cutting the coupons."" The other members of Mrs. Smithers-Pedagogue's high class home."@en