Books
______., American Enterprise: Nineteenth-Century Patent Models, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, N.Y., 1984.
______., The Crystal Palace Exhibition, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, N.Y 1970.
Dobyns, Kenneth W., The Patent Office Pony, Sergeant Kirkland’s Museum and Historical Society, Inc., Fredericksburg, VA., 1997.
Evans, Harold, They Made America, Back Bay Books, New York, N.Y., 2004.
Ffrench, Yvonne, The Great Exhibition:1851, The Harvill Press, London 1950.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Simon & Schuster, New York, N.Y., 2005.
Green, Constance McL., Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology, Longman, New York, N.Y. 1956.
Greenleaf, William, Monopoly on Wheels, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Mich., 1961.
Houze, Herbert G., Samuel Colt: Arms, Art, and Invention, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 2006.
Howard, Fred, Wilbur and Orville: a biography of the Wright Brothers, Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, N.Y.,1998.
Kahn, B. Zorina, The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920, Cambridge University Press, New York, N.Y. 2005.
Shulman, Seth, The Telephone Gambit, W.W. Morton & Company, 2008.
Slack, Charles, Noble Obsession, TEXERE LLC, New York, N.Y., 2002.
Silverman, Kenneth, Lightning Man, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2004.
Standage, Tom, The Victorian Internet, Walker and Company, New York, N.Y., 1998.
Publications, Newspapers, Cases and Other Articles
Lundeberg, Philip K., Samuel Colt’s Submarine Battery, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1974.
Mossoff, Adam, A stitch in Time: The Rise and Fall of the Sewing Machine Patent Thicket, Arizona Law Review, Vol. 53, pp. 165-211, 2011.
MacGregor, Donald, “The Passing of Uncle Sam’s Old Curiosity Shop,” The Mentor, September, 1925.
Seabrook, John, “The Flash of Genius,” The New Yorker, January 11, 1993.
“A Snow Storm,” The New York Times, November 1, 1851.
“Colt’s Revolvers,” The New York Times, October 14, 1852.
“Colt’s Revolvers,” The New York Times, October 19, 1852.
“The Great India Rubber Case,” The New York Times, October 22, 1851.
“The Great India-Rubber Case—New-Jersey Legislature,” The New York Times, March 24, 1852.
“The Great India Rubber Case,” The New York Times, March 30, 1852.
“Webster’s Argument—Goodyear vs. Day,” The New York Times, May 14, 1852.
Colt v. Massachusetts Arms Co., 6 F.Cas. 161 (D. Mass. 1851).
Cyrus H. McCormick v. Waite Talcott et al., 61 U.S. 402 (1858).
Henry O’Reilly et al. v. Samuel F.B. Morse et al., 56 U.S. 62 (1853).
Goodyear v. Day, 10 F.Cas. 678 (D. N.J. 1852).
McCormick v. Manny et al., 15 F. Cas. 1314 (N.D. Ill. 1856)
Whitney v. Carter, Fess. Pat 130, 29 F.Cas. 1070 (D. GA 1810)
Wright Co. v. Herring-Curtiss Co. et al., 204 F. 597 (W.D. New York 1913).