Word: patents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Radio Corporation of America is really Admiral Bullard's personal achievement. In 1919 British Marconi interests wanted to buy patent rights to the Alexanderson alternator, invented at the General Electric Co.'s Schenectady laboratories. This was considered the best device for trans-oceantic and ship radio work. Admiral Bullard argued with every personage whom he could reach that Americans must keep ownership of those patent rights. The result was The Radio Corporation of America. But R. C. A. could never have been organized except for the hearty co-operation of U. S. manufacturers of radio devices. Owen...
...wireless set with which his family used to call him from the laboratory to his meals, and most important of all, discovered, jointly with Faraday, the laws of electromagnetic induction which underlie all electric power machinery. And when urged by his friends to press his claims for patent rights he answered that his scientific work was too important to be hampered by attending to such trivial matters...
...Chain Co., came loud and speedy protest. He stated facts: The "Weed" tire chain was named after its inventor, Harry D. Weed, of Canastota (near Syracuse) N. Y. Under license agreement from him, the company produced Weed chains and paid all royalties therefrom for many years, later buying the patent rights. Colonel Weed is vigorously alive in Bridgeport and retains a close consulting connection with the American Chain Co., successors to the Weed Chain Tire Grip Co. The new concern has expanded mightily over its small beginnings, owning chain, wire, steel factories at home and abroad, and producing many allied...
...Story: Harry Rebhan bought (January 1927) a patent rain-coat from its German inventor. He doubled his commodity to a practical small package, founded the Rain-Pak Corporation, and has sold over 500,000 waterproof coats since June 1927. He sold 30,000 marked with armbands of Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kansas, etc. He sold them to all Liggett Drug Stores...
...before the Schoolmasters Club of Massachusetts, speaks openly of the "laugh that is sweeping the country" as a result of the Mayor's activities; and although Professor Hart denies that he is in the pay of a foreign power, on one can expect Mayor Thompson to believe such a patent effort at deceit...