Confederate invention : the story of the Confederate States Patent office and its inventors / H. Jackson Knight.
Pubblicazione:
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State university press, c2011.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Conflicting worlds
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Introduction. 1. The heritage of successful nineteenth-century inventors 2. Political realities in the United States prior to the Civil War 3. Formation of a new government in the South 4. Motivations for a system for recording and patenting inventions 5. The standard for patenting in the United States in 1861 6. The Confederate States Patent office takes shape 7. North-South patent statistics 8. Popular hypotheses for the lack of Southern patenting 9. Reasons for the lack of southern patenting 10. Supporting the cause: the heady days of 1861 11. The Confederate States of America Patent law change 12. The steady decline (1863 and 1864) 13. The fall of Richmond 14. The remains of the Confederate States Patent office. Conclusion. Appendix 1: List of Confederate patentees. Appendix 2: Surviving patent assignments from the Confederate States record of assignments book. Appendix 3: Biographical profiles of patentees and assignees. Appendix 4: The Confederate States record of assignments book. Notes. Bibliography. Index
