# American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D

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- Authors: [Eric S. Hintz](https://www.bookquiver.com/eric-s-hintz)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6254-258-6
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2021-08-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

How America's individual inventors persisted alongside corporate R&D labs as an important source of inventions. During the nineteenth century, heroic individual inventors such as Thomas Edison and...