Confederate invention
Subtitle: the story of the Confederate States Patent Office and its inventors
By: H. Jackson Knight
Series: Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War; Conflicting worlds
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780807137628
Subjects: Industries; Confederate States of America; Confederate States of America. Patent Office; Inventions; Inventors; Technology; Patents; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-381) and index.
Table of contents: title: The heritage of successful nineteenth-century inventors; title: Political realities in the United States prior to the Civil War; title: Formation of a new government in the South; title: Motivations for a system for recording and patenting inventions; title: The standard for patenting in the United States in 1861; title: The Confederate States Patent Office takes shape; title: North-South patent statistics; title: Popular hypotheses for the lack of Southern patenting; title: Reasons for the lack of Southern patenting; title: Supporting the cause : the heady days of 1861; title: The Confederate States of America Patent Law change; title: The steady decline : 1863 and 1864; title: The fall of Richmond; title: The remains of the Confederate States Patent Office; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix 1: List of Confederate patentees; title: Appendix 2: Surviving patent assignments from the Confederate States record of assignments book; title: Appendix 3: Biographical profiles of patentees and assignees; title: Appendix 4: The Confederate States record of assignments book.