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The Age of Invention

CHAPTER II
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Suit after suit ran its course in the Georgia courts, without a single decision in the inventor's favor.

At length, however, in December, 1806, the validity of Whitney's patent was finally determined by decision of the United States Circuit Court in Georgia.

Whitney asked for a perpetual injunction against the Holmes machine, and the court, finding that his invention was basic, granted him all that he asked.
By this time, however, the life of the patent had nearly run its course.
Whitney applied to Congress for a renewal, but, in spite of all his arguments and a favorable committee report, the opposition from the cotton States proved too strong, and his application was denied.

Whitney now had other interests.

He was a great manufacturer of firearms, at New Haven, and as such we shall meet him again in a later chapter..


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