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Invented by Law
Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone in 1876 stands as one of the great touchstones of American technological achievement. Bringing a new perspective to this history, Invented by Law examines the legal battles that raged over Bell’s telephone patent, likely the most consequential patent right ever granted. To a surprising extent, Christopher Beauchamp shows, the telephone was as much a creation of American law as of scientific innovation. 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 cha...
The Gray Matter
Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent application and Elisha Gray filed a caveat, both on February 14, 1876. Bell obtained information from the caveat, then amended his application and made his first speaking telephone. That was the start of the complete telephone business in our country.
Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900
Connects British and American literature to a changing media landscape in an era of innovation.
