@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt7zvj8b.12,
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zvj8b.12},
 abstract = {This chapter takes as a starting point the problematic status of invention in early Victorian England. Invention itself was a highly negotiable activity and the status of inventors difficult to manage and negotiate throughout this period. Making distinctions between discovery and invention, for example, was not an easy process.¹ These were cultural, social problems. In many ways they amounted to the issue of what kind of person an inventor (or, for that matter, a discoverer) should be. In other words, they were questions concerning the appropriate social group and place for the inventor. The chapter title reflects one response to},
 bookauthor = {IWAN RHYS MORUS},
 booktitle = {Frankenstein's Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London},
 pages = {164--193},
 publisher = {Princeton University Press},
 title = {They Have No Right to Look for Fame: The Patenting of Electricity},
 year = {1998}
}