Excerpt:
This month's inventor may look like a 19th century pirate. But you cannot judge this book by its cover. His invention was first, but Congress decided his invention was too important to be monopolized by a single man. One of our previous inventors, patented his invention a year after this month's inventor and his marketing skills beat out our mystery man
Annotation:
Snippets from the first two volumes of Scientific American magazine. Very little information available and what is is of a frivolous nature. Not for research. Site has not been updates since 1997.