TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beauchamp,Christopher
TI  - Invented by law: Alexander Graham Bell and the patent that changed America 
SN  - 9780674368064
AV  - KF3116 .B43 2015
U1  - 346.7304/86 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Bell, Alexander Graham,
KW  - Patent laws and legislation
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Telecommunication
KW  - Patents
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Inventors
KW  - fast
KW  - Patenträtt
KW  - historia
KW  - sao
KW  - Telekommunikation
KW  - Uppfinnare
KW  - prvt
KW  - Teknikhistoria
KW  - Förenta staterna
KW  - Patent law
KW  - History of technology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-260) and index; 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
N2  - 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 come. Beauchamp investigates the sources of Bell{u2019}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
ER  -