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• The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest, by Holland Thompson (Gutenberg text)
• The age of invention; a chronicle of mechanical conquest, by Holland Thompson. (New Haven, Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1921), by Holland Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The age of invention; a chronicle of mechanical conquest, by Holland Thompson. (New Haven, Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1921), by Holland Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The age of invention; a chronicle of mechanical conquest / by Holland Thompson. (New Haven : Yale University Press ; Toronto, Glasgow, Broot, c1921), by Holland Thompson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Protection of the rights of inventors. Hearing before the Committee on military affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, on S. 4277, a bill to protect the rights of inventors. September 11, 1940 ... (Washington, U. S. Govt. print. off., 1940), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas A. Edison : the life-story of a great American. (London : George G. Harrap & Co., 1917) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The making of America. (Philadelphia, J. D. Morris and company, [c1905]), by Robert M. La Follette (page images at HathiTrust)
• The inventors and inventions of Cayuga County, N.Y., (Auburn, N.Y., The author, 1882), by Cyrenus Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scotch-Irish addresses. The Scotch-Irish people. (Nashville, Tenn., Publishing house of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, 1892), by J. H. Bryson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leading American inventors, by George Iles ... with fifteen portraits and many illustrations. (New York, H. Holt and company, 1912), by George Iles (page images at HathiTrust)
• A light is extinguished / by L.W. McChesney. ([S.l. : The Author?], 1932), by L. W. McChesney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new industrialism. Part 1: The age of invention, by Holland Thompson, Part 2: The age of big business, by Burton J. Hendrick. (New Haven, Yale university press; [etc., etc., 1926]), by Holland Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four American inventors: (New York, Chicago [etc.] Werner school book company, [1901]), by F. M. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leading American inventors, by George Iles ... with fifteen portraits and many illustrations. (New York, H. Holt and company, 1912), by George Iles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The age of invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest / by Holland Thompson. (Toronto : Glasgow, Brook ; New York : United States Publishers Association, c1921), by Holland Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alexander Graham Bell, man of sound. Illustrated by Gray Morrow. (Champaign, Ill., Garrard Pub. Co., [1963]), by Elizabeth Rider Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas Alva Edison, miracle maker. Illustrated by Cary. (Champaign, Ill., Garrard Pub. Co., [1962]), by Mervyn D. Kaufman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin (multiple editions)
• Eulogium on Benjamin Franklin, L. L. D. (Philadelphia: Printed by Benjamin Franklin Bache, 1791), by William Smith (frame-dependent page images here at Penn)
• My Inventions (as published in 1919 in The Electrical Experimenter), by Nikola Tesla (HTML at teslaplay.com)
• The Power of Boldness: Ten Master Builders of American Industry Tell Their Success Stories, ed. by Elkan Blout (page images at NAP)
• Elias E. Ries, inventor / by Estelle H. Ries. (New York : Philosophical Library, 1951), by Estelle H. Ries (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jack Wright and His Electric Stage: or, Leagued Against the James Boys (Boys' star library #344, by "Noname"; c1893), by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Legacy: The Life of Nikola Tesla, by Norma Brody (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)

• The Colored Inventor: A Record of Fifty Years, by Henry E. Baker (Gutenberg ebook)

• The inventors and inventions of Cayuga County, N.Y. / by Cyrenus Wheeler, Jr. ; with a supplement by David M. Osborne ; read before the Cayuga County Historical Society, at Auburn, N.Y., December 21, 1880, and forming a part of their publications, "No. 2" ; illustrated by Frank R. Rathbun. (Auburn, N.Y. : Published by the author, 1882), by Cyrenus Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Patent trolls : fact or fiction? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, June 15, 2006. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2006), by the Internet United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Patent Prior User Rights Act and the Patent Reexamination Reform Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, on S. 2272, to amend chapter 28 of Title 35, United States Code, to provide a defense to patent infringement based on prior use by certain persons, and for other purposes, and S. 2341, to amend chapter 30 of Title 35, United States Code, to afford third parties an opportunity for greater participation in reexamination proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and for other purposes, August 9, 1994. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1996), by Copyrights United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 : report (to accompany H.R. 1907) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). ([Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1999-), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of 1999 : conference report (to accompany H.R. 1554). ([Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1999]), by United States Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prior user rights (relative to patents) : hearing before the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, September 13, 1994. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1995), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) : intellectual property provisions : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, on H.R. 4894 ... S. 2368 ... August 12, 1994. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1995), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medical Procedures Innovation and Affordability Act and Inventor Protection Act of 1995 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 1127 ... and H.R. 2419 ... October 19, 1995. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1997), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Great Inventors and Their Inventions (1918), by Frank P. Bachman (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)
• The book of illustrious mechanics, of Europe and America. Translated from the French. Edited by John Frost. (New York, D. Appleton, 1846), by Edouard Foucaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great inventions: their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal investors. (Philadelphia, J.A. Ruth, 1883), by Franc B. Wilkie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great movements, and those who achieved them, by Henry J. Nicoll. With thirteen portraits. (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1882), by Henry James Nicoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics, together with a collection of anecdotes, descriptions, etc., etc. ... / by Henry Howe ... (New York : W.F. Peckham, 1840), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erfinder und entdecker, von Wilhelm Ostwald. (Frankfurt am Main, Rütten & Loening, [1908]), by Wilhelm Ostwald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The romance of invention: vignettes from the annals of industry and science. By James Burnley ... With six illustrations by Gordon Browne. (London, New York [etc.] Cassell & company, limited, 1886), by James Burnley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The creators of the age of steel. By W.T. Jeans. (London, Chapman and Hall, limited, 1884), by William T. Jeans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alphabetical index of patentees of inventions ([London, Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, 1969-), by Great Britain. Patent Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Juden als Erfinder und Entdecker. (Berlin-Wilmersdorf : Welt-Verlag, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fortunes made in business: a series of original sketches, biographical and anecdotic, from the recent history of industry and commerce, (London, S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1884-87) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inventors, by Philip G. Hubert, jr. (New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1896), by Philip Gengembre Hubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eminent engineers; brief biographies of thirty-two of the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress, by Dwight Goddard ... (New York, The Derry-Collard company, 1906), by Dwight Goddard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les artisans illustres, par Edouard Foucaud; sous la direction de Messieurs le baron Ch. Dupin et Blanqui aîné. (Paris, Béthune et Plon, 1841), by Edouard Foucaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventors / by Philip G. Hubert, jr. (New York : C. Scribner's, 1895, c1893), by Philip Gengembre Hubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial biography; iron workers and tool makers. (London, J. Murray, 1901), by Samuel Smiles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics; together with a collection of anecdotes, descriptions, &c. &c., relating to the mechanic arts / illustrated by fifty engravings. (New York : J. C. Derby, 1856), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics : together with a collection of anecdotes ... relating to the mechanic arts : illustrated by fifty engravings / by Henry Howe. (New York : Harper & Brothers, 1852), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of illustrious mechanics of Europe and AMerica : translated from the French of Edward Foucaud / edited by John Frost. (New York : D. Appleton ;, 1847, 1845), by Edouard Foucaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts : a book for old and young / by Johb Timbs. (London : Kent, 1860), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lights of two centuries : illustrated with fifty portraits / edited by Edward Everett Hale. (New York : A. S. Barnes, c1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great inventors and their inventions, by Frank P. Bachman ... (New York, Cincinnati [etc.] American Book Company, [c1918]), by Frank Puterbaugh Bachman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics: also, lives of distinguished European mechanics; together with a collection of anecdotes, descriptions, &c. &c., relating to the mechanic arts. Illustrated by fifty engravings. By Henry Howe ... (New York, Harper & brothers, 1847), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of John Ericsson / by William Conant Church. (London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890), by William Conant Church (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery, by George Iles ... (New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1907), by George Iles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Triumphs of genius. (Philadelphia : A. R. Keller Co., 1893), by W. Sanford Ramey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of inventors; the adventures of inventors and engineers. True incidents and personal experiences, by Russell Doubleday. (New York, Doubleday, Page & co., 1904), by Russell Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaders of modern industry; biographical sketches. (London, Allen, 1894), by George Barnett Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics ; together with a collection of anecdotes, descriptions & etc. relating to the mechanic arts. Illustrated by fifty engravings / by Henry Howe. (New York : Alexander V. Blake, 1842), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the laboratory and the workshop / by C. L. Brightwell. (London ; New York : G. Routledge and Sons, [1859]), by C. L. Brightwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of invention and industry. (London, J. Murray, 1884), by Samuel Smiles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young. By John Timbs ... (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1860), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The psychology of the inventor : a study of the patentee / by Joseph Rossman. (Washington, D.C. : Inventors Pub. Co., 1931), by Joseph Rossman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of invention and industry / by Samuel Smiles. (London : J. Murray, 1890), by Samuel Smiles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The creators of the age of steel. By W.T.Jeans. (New York, Scribner's, 1884), by William T. Jeans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eli Whitney, great inventor. Illustrated by Cary. (Champaign, Ill., Garrard Pub. Co., [1963]), by Jean Lee Latham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of illustrious mechanics, of Europe and America. Tr. from the French of Edward Foucaud. (Hartford, W. J. Hamersley, [1845]), by Edouard Foucaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erfinder und Erfindungen / von Albert Neuberger mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. (Berlin : Ullstein, 1913, c1912), by Albert Neuburger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fools and foolishness, by Harry C. McKown, illustrated by Margaret Whittemore. (Topeka, Kan., School activities Pub. Co., 1943), by Harry C. McKown (page images at HathiTrust)
• A calendar of invention and discovery. Comp. by John Cassan Wait. (New York, McGraw, 1903), by John Cassan Wait (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of illustrious mechanics of Europe and America : Tr. from the French / Ed. by John Frost. (New York : D. Appleton, [c1845]), by Edouard Foucaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics: also, lives of distinguished European mechanics; together with a collection of anecdotes, descriptions, &c. &c., relating to the mechanic arts. Illustrated by fifty engravings. By Henry Howe. (New York, A. V. Blake, [c1841]), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics: also, lives of distinguished European mechanics; together with a collection of anecdotes, descriptions, &c. &c., relating to the mechanic arts. (New York, A. V. Blake, 1844), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eminent engineers; brief biographies of thirty-two of the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress, by Dwight Goddard ... (New York, The Derry-Collard company, 1906), by Dwight Goddard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs. By F. B. Wilkie ... (Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co., 1883), by Franc B. Wilkie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventors, by Philip G. Hubert, jr. (New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1896), by Philip Gengembre Hubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery, by George Iles ... (New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1906), by George Iles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics: also, lives of distinguished European mechanics; together with a collection of anecdotes, descriptions, &c. &c., relating to the mechanic arts. Illustrated by fifty engravings. By Henry Howe ... (New York, Harper & brothers, 1847), by Henry Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• How they blazed the way : men who have advanced civilization / by J. Walter McSpadden. (New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1939), by J. Walker McSpadden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief biographies of inventors of machines for the manufacture of textile fabrics. By Bennet Woodcroft ... (London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1863), by Bennet Woodcroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inventors, by Philip G. Hubert, Jr. (New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1893), by Philip Gengembre Hubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alphabetical index of patentees of inventions. ([New York, A.M. Kelly, 1969-), by Great Britain. Patent Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. : A book for old and young. (New York : Harper & brothers, 1860), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samuel F. B. Morse, artist-inventor. Illustrated by Jo Polseno. (Champaign, Ill., Garrard Press, [1961]), by Jean Lee Latham (page images at HathiTrust)
• From immigrant to inventor / by Michael Pupin. (New York, Scribner, 1925, c1922), by Michael Pupin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of invention, told by inventors and their friends. By Edward E. Hale. (Boston, Roberts brothers, 1885), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lights of two centuries, (New York & Chicago, A. S. Barnes & company, 1887), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories of invention, told by inventors and their friends. By Edward E. Hale. (Boston, Roberts brothers, 1885), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lights of two centuries, ed. by E. E. Hale; illustrated with fifty portraits. (New York, Chicago, A. S. Barnes, 1887), by Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical and descriptive anecdotes of steam-engines, and of their inventors and improvers: by Robert Stuart [pseud.] ... (London, Wightman and Cramp, 1829), by Robert Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of a blind inventor; being some account of the life and labours of Dr. James Gale. (London : William Tweedie, 1868), by John Plummer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Triumphs of invention and discovery in art and science / by J. Hamilton Fyfe. (London ; Edinburgh ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1876), by J. Hamilton Fyfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes and martyrs of invention, by George Makepeace Towle. (Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C. T. Tillingham, 1890), by George M. Towle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conquests of invention; Cyrus H. McCormick, Elias Howe, Thomas A. Edison, William Murdock, Robert Fulton, Guglielmo Marconi, Charles Goodyear, George Westinghouse, Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, by Mary r. Parkman... (New York, The Century co., 1921), by Mary Rosetta Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends, by Edward Everett Hale (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers, by Russell Doubleday (Gutenberg ebook)

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