Patents and the Useful Arts (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Patents and the Useful Arts
If the reader feels inclined to smile at the title chosen for this little work, and to doubt the existence of any very intimate alliance between patents and the advancement of the useful arts, I ask him to follow me while I take a rapid survey of the rise and progress of those arts since the latter part of the reign of James I., and note their connection with patents.
The reader need not be alarmed, I...