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Links: Two Patent Tidbits from the New York Review |
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The New York Review of Books is celebrating its 40th anniversary (although it has already reached volume number 50, so go figure). The birthday issue contains two neat little gems about patents in history buried within other articles. First, Roger Shattuck has this to say in his article about the Wright Brothers:
Despite such triumphs, the Wrights lost the second race. Reliable aircraft were put on the market first by the French and then by the Germans and the British before the Americans, paralyzed by the patent litigation initiated by the Wrights, could pool their resources.
A few pages later, in writing about Einstein, Poincare, and the intellectual excitement of 1905, Freeman Dyson notes:
For Einstein, analyzing and understanding these inventions was not just a convenient way to pay the rent. He enjoyed the work at the patent office and found it intellectually challenging. Later in his life, he remarked that the formulation of technological patents had been an important stimulus to his thinking about physics.
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