Popular Patents: America’s First Inventions, from the Airplane to the Zipper 2nd edition

This was originally published in 1994 as Historical First Patents: The First United States Patents for Many Everyday Things(RR 95/104). This is a more accurate title. The book covers over 80 first US patents for a wide range of products. The accounts of each cover two to four pages, and include:

Where they have occurred, problems, disputes and infringements are covered. Each article includes a drawing from the patent or, where there are no drawings, the first page of the patent. For good measure, the first US patent and patent No. 1 are included. These are not the...