Re: Attitudes toward invention, my rant for the day
- From: kenney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 15:07:11 -0500
In article <5cnge6x7vf.ln2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, azb@xxxxxxxxxx (Andrew
Robert Breen) wrote:
Oldest (still working..) Swan bulb is 1875, IIRC. Used to be in one
of the arcades in Newcastle. Not sure where it is now.
The first industrial building to be lit in England was a pipe casting
works in 1877. The installation was designed by Crompton and used arc
lights like other earlier schemes for places like Billingsgate Market.
Swan showed his new bulb to Crompton in 1879 and the Edison Swan company
was formed in 1883. (Victorian Engineering pages 223-4).
I don't have a full list of Maxim's patents but I believe as well as
every conceivable method of producing an automatic machine gun there was
a reaping machine and possibly some other mechanical devices. I do not
remember Maxim doing any electrical design work. If Maxim had enforced
his patents it is likely that nobody else could have produced any sort
of mg.
This was unlike the Wright Brothers who did enforce their patents
vigorously and resulted in a generation of competing US aircraft
designers to try and overturn them by proving the Langley and IIRC Maxim
flying machines could work.
Ken Young
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