Download or read book Analyzing Disputed Electrical Invention, digital original edition written by Stathis Arapostathis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late nineteenth-century Britain saw an extraordinary surge in patent disputes over the new technologies of electrical power, lighting, telephony, and radio, which played out in the twin tribunals of the courtroom and the press. In this BIT, Stathis Arapostathis and Graeme Gooday examine the persistent conflicts over inventorship in electrical invention in this period, analyzing disputes over who should be considered the “first and true inventor” of early electrical technologies.