Radio waves and plants: The life of JC Bose
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What a Dreadful Disease Is
Inventors spent a lot of time and money patenting all manner of electrical inventions, hoping that their intellectual property would make them rich if their invention became commercially successful. This was the time of edison testler, berline and others, whose patent litigation became legendary. But even though bos came up with a potentially lucrative invention, the self recovering coherer, he was decidedly interested in patens. Do we know why? Jonove, allow me to read to us a little line from a letter that he wrote to rabindanatagor from london: If only you could witness this country's greet for money, money, money. What a dreadful, all consuming disease is
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