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Confederate invention : the story of the Confederate States Patent Office and its inventors
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- Creator
- H. Jackson Knight
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xii, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807137628, 0807137626
- OCLC
- ocn671385663
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-381) and index.
- The heritage of successful nineteenth-century inventors -- Political realities in the United States prior to the Civil War -- Formation of a new government in the South -- Motivations for a system for recording and patenting inventions -- The standard for patenting in the United States in 1861 -- The Confederate States Patent Office takes shape -- North-South patent statistics -- Popular hypotheses for the lack of Southern patenting -- Reasons for the lack of Southern patenting -- Supporting the cause : the heady days of 1861 -- The Confederate States of America Patent Law change -- The steady decline : 1863 and 1864 -- The fall of Richmond -- 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
Subjects
- Confederate States of America. Patent Office -- History.
- Patents -- Confederate States of America -- History.
- Inventors -- Confederate States of America -- History.
- Inventions -- Confederate States of America -- History.
- Technology -- Confederate States of America -- History.
- Industries -- Confederate States of America -- History.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Technology.