Confederate Invention: The Story of the Confederate States Patent Office and Its Inventors

by H. Jackson Knight

The formation of the Confederate States of America 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 office.
Despite the destruction wrought by the Civil War, evidence of Confederate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807137626
• ISBN13: 9780807137628
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"