Inventors & Inventions
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Excerpt from Inventors and InventionsAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfec...
Chapters (74)
- Inventors & Inventions
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1 Successful Invention
- CHAPTER 2 Machine Designing
- CHAPTER 3 Financing a New Invention
- CHAPTER 4 Marketing a New Invention
- CHAPTER 5 Determining the Selling Price of a Newly Invented Article
- CHAPTER 6 Office Management and Business Policies
- CHAPTER 7 Divers Ways of Exploiting an Invention
- CHAPTER 8 Useful Pointers on Successful Manufacturing
- CHAPTER 9 Warning to Prospective Inventors
- CHAPTER 10 Advice to Inventors on Inventions
- CHAPTER 11 General Definition and Classification of Inventions
- CHAPTER 12 The Glory of Invention and Pictures of Celebrated Inventors and Scientists
- CHAPTER 13 How to Invent
- CHAPTER 14 How to Make Sketches and Specifications
- CHAPTER 15 The Necessity of Competent Engineering for Successful Invention
- CHAPTER 16 Pert Pointers for Prospective Inventors That Will Be Found Helpful
- CHAPTER 17 Protection of an Invention
- CHAPTER 18 Various Ways Employed to Cheat and Rob Inventors
- CHAPTER 19 Government Connivance at the Despoiling of a Poor Inventor
- CHAPTER 20 Old and Common Tricks Employed to "Do" an Inexperienced Inventor
- CHAPTER 21 The Root of the Evil
- CHAPTER 22 Comparative Legal Protection Afforded to Mental and Physical Property
- CHAPTER 23 The Utter Helplessness of a Poor Inventor to Obtain Justice
- CHAPTER 24 Public Attitude Towards Him Who Steals Physical and to the One Who Steals Mental Property
- CHAPTER 25 Present Available Means of Protecting an Invention
- CHAPTER 26 Comparative Government Treatment—A Bounty for Raising "Sugar Beets," but a Tax on Inventions
- CHAPTER 27 Society's Debt to the Inventor
- CHAPTER 28 Comparative Protection Given by the Government
- CHAPTER 29 The Law's Definition of Property—and Public Policy
- CHAPTER 30 The Successful Inventor
- CHAPTER 31 Comparative Treatment the World Accords to Them, and Summary
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