Why Has America Stopped Inventing Book

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction:     The Patent Game Chapter One:     Life Could Be Better Chapter Two:     How America’s Innovation Began—Eli Whitney Chapter Three:     The U.S. Gets Her First Patent Office Chapter Four:     America’s Laws Get Broken In Chapter Five:     In Come the Models Chapter Six:     America Gets Rubber Fever Chapter Seven:     A New Patent Office and Patent Statute Chapter Eight:     The Patent Office Rescues Colt and Morse Chapter Nine:     McCormick and Goodyear Secure Their Rotunda Fame Chapter Ten:     Singer Starts the Patent Wars Chapter Eleven: Colt Turns to the Courts Chapter Twelve:    Goodyear Seeks Out Daniel Webster Chapter Thirteen:  The Legal Elite Join the Fight: Lincoln and His Future Cabinet Take Sides on the McCormick Reaper Case Chapter Fourteen:    Morse Encounters Salmon P. Chase Chapter Fifteen:    The Aftermath Chapter Sixteen:    The Old Curiosity Shop Is Mothballed Chapter Seventeen:     The Telephone and the Automobile Chapter Eighteen:      The Patent Office Confronts the Ether Chapter Nineteen:     In Come the Wright Brothers Chapter Twenty:     Where Did the Inventors Go?
Chapter Twenty One:     The Staggering Cost of Inventing Chapter Twenty Two:     How Do We Fix This?
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