Screen LibraryInvented by law : Alexander Graham Bell and the patent that changed America /
Beauchamp reconstructs the world of nineteenth-century patent law, replete with inventors, capitalists, and charlatans, where rival claimants and political maneuvering loomed large in the contests that erupted over new technologies. He challenges the popular myth of Bell as the telephone{u2019}s sol...
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Beauchamp reconstructs the world of nineteenth-century patent law, replete with inventors, capitalists, and charlatans, where rival claimants and political maneuvering loomed large in the contests that erupted over new technologies. He challenges the popular myth of Bell as the telephone{u2019}s sole inventor, exposing that story{u2019}s origins in the arguments advanced by Bell{u2019}s lawyers. More than anyone else, it was the courts that anointed Bell father of the telephone, granting him a patent monopoly that decisively shaped the American telecommunications industry for a century to co |
| Carrier Form: | 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-260) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674368064 0674368061 |
| Index Number: | KF3116 |
| CLC: | D971.234-09 |
| Call Number: | D971.234-09/B372 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- 1. Invention in the lawyers' world -- 2. Acts of invention -- 3. The telephone case -- 4. The United States versus Bell -- 5. Atlantic crossings -- 6. Patent the Earth -- 7. Patents, firms, and systems -- 8. Patents and the network nation -- Conclusion. |