Beauchamp, Christopher,  1977- <br/><br/>
Invented by law :  Alexander Graham Bell and the patent that changed America / 
Christopher Beauchamp. 
 - 272 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-260) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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 Bells 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 Bells 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674368064 0674368061 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Harvard Univ Pr, C/O Triliteral Llc 100 Maple Ridge Dr, Cumbreland, RI, USA, 02864-1769, (401)6584226  SAN 631-8126 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014012680 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB4E9803  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016983466  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922. <br/>Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Patent laws and legislation--History.--United States<br/>Telecommunication--Patents.<br/>Telecommunication--Law and legislation--United States.<br/>Patents--History.--United States<br/>Inventors--History.--United States<br/>Inventors.<br/>Patent laws and legislation.<br/>Patents.<br/>Telecommunication.<br/>Telecommunication--Law and legislation.<br/>Patenträtt--historia.<br/>Telekommunikation--historia.<br/>Uppfinnare--historia.<br/>Telekommunikation.<br/>Teknikhistoria.<br/>Uppfinnare.<br/>Förenta staterna.<br/>Patenträtt.<br/>Patent law.<br/>Telecommunication.<br/>United States.<br/>History of technology.<br/>Inventors.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.<br/>Förenta staterna.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>Patents.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF3116  / .B43 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>346.7304/86