Title Invented by law : Alexander Graham Bell and the patent that changed America / Christopher Beauchamp.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.

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Description	1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary	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 inventor, exposing that story's 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.
Note	Print version record.
Language	In English.
Subject	Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922.
	Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922. (OCoLC)fst00043571
	Patent laws and legislation -- United States -- History.
	Telecommunication -- Patents.
	Telecommunication -- Law and legislation -- United States.
	Patents -- United States -- History.
	Inventors -- United States -- History.
	LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
	HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
	Inventors. (OCoLC)fst00978052
	Patent laws and legislation. (OCoLC)fst01054823
	Patents. (OCoLC)fst01054862
	Telecommunication. (OCoLC)fst01145830
	Telecommunication -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst01145888
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	History, Philosophy and Sociology of Law.
	Inventors.
	Law.
	Patent laws and legislation.
	Telecommunication -- Law and legislation.
	Telecommunication.
	Recht.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Patents. (OCoLC)fst01423842
	Online-Ressource.
Added Title	Alexander Graham Bell and the patent that changed America
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Other Form:	Print version: Beauchamp, Christopher, 1977- Invented by law. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015 9780674368064 (DLC) 2014012680 (OCoLC)875404357
Standard No.	10.4159/harvard.9780674735545 doi
ISBN	9780674735545 (electronic book)
	0674735544 (electronic book)

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