Retrospective.

100 years ago in AMERICAN MACHINIST
AMERICAN MACHINIST editors were astonished to find on the outside just how low a design thief would stoop. In the September 1899 issue, they report upon one culprit's latest trick.
"We heard a story about a man who ordered a special machine from a of recent origin England builder. When it arrived, he took it apart, made drawings of it (and possibly castings from its parts), deposit it together again, and turn 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