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Confederate Invention: The Story of the Confederate States Patent Office and Its Inventors (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)

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The formation of the Confederate States of The usa involved more than an attempt to create a new, sovereign nation — it inspired a flurry of creativity and entrepreneurialism in the South that fiercely matched Union ingenuity. H. Jackson Knight’s Confederate Invention brings to light the forgotten history of the Confederacy’s industrious inventors and its active patent Place of job.
Despite the destruction wrought by the Civil War, evidence of Confederate inventions exists in the registry of the Confederate States Patent Place of job. Hundreds of southerners submitted applications to the agency to protected patents on their intellectual property, which ranged from a “machine for operating submarine batteries,” to a “steam plough,” to a “combined knapsack and tent,” to an “instrument for sighting cannon.” The Confederacy’s most successful inventors included entrepreneurs, educators, and military men who sought to develop new weapons, weapon improvements, or other inventions that could benefit the Confederate cause in addition to their own lives. Each and every creation belied the conception of a technologically backward South, incapable of matching the creativity and output of northern counterparts.
Knight’s work provides a groundbreaking study that includes neglected and in large part forgotten patents in addition to an array of other primary sources. Details at the patent Place of job’s origins, inner workings, and demise, and accounts of southern inventors who obtained patents before, throughout, and after the war reveal an interesting history recovered from obscurity.
A novel creation in its own right, Confederate Invention presents the remarkable story in the back of the South’s long-forgotten Civil War inventors and offers a comprehensive account of Confederate patents.

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