Stathis Arapostathis;, Graeme Gooday. Patently Contestable: Electrical Technologies and Inventor Identities on Trial in Britain. xv + 294 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2013. $40 [Book Review]

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