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Invented by Law: Alexander Graham Bell and the Patent That Changed America (2015)

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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 telephones sole inventor, exposing that storys origins in the arguments advanced by Bell'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 come. Beauchamp investigates the sources of Bell's legal primacy in the United States, and looks across the Atlantic, to Britain, to consider how another legal system handled the same technology in very different ways.

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Authors & Contributors
Gooday, Graeme J. N.
Booth, Katie
John, Richard R.
Sonia Hirt
Gooday, Gaeme
Harland, John H.
Concepts
Patents
Telegraphs; telephones
Inventors and invention
Cross-national comparison
Technology and economics
Law and legislation
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Ohio (U.S.)
Spain
France
Institutions
American Patent Agency
United States. Patent Office
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