Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Steam power and patent law development in the Eighteenth Century
  • Origins of the Fulton-Livingston monopoly
  • Corporate negotiations
  • Defending the monopoly
  • Interstate competition
  • Personal rivalries and lawsuits
  • The road to the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Strategies and deliberations
  • The Gibbons decision and popular reaction
  • The decline of the New York steamboat monopoly.