Senin, 18 September 2017

CWT Book Review: Confederate Invention

Confederate Invention: The Story of the Confederate States Patent Office and Its Inventors H. Jackson Knight; LSU Press Registered patent agent H. Jackson Knight stumbled across the Confederate States Patent Office’s annual summary reports gathering dust at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. Most of those records disappeared during the fire that followed the evacuation …

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