Invented 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's sole...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Beauchamp, Christopher, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Bell, Alexander Graham, > 1847-1922.
Patent laws and legislation > United States > History.
Telecommunication > Patents.
Telecommunication > Law and legislation > United States.
Patents > United States > History.
Inventors > United States > History.
Inventeurs > États-Unis > Histoire.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Inventors.
Patent laws and legislation.
Patents.
Telecommunication.
Telecommunication > Law and legislation.
United States.
History.
Online-Ressource.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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