Kirchberger v. American Acetylene Burner Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. This case comes here on appeal from a decree of the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of New York adjudicating validity, and infringement by defendants, of complainants’ patent, No. 589,342, granted August 31, 1897, to E. J. Dolan, for a tip for acetylene gas burners.
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, Circuit Judge.
It appears from the record that the acetylene light industry owes its origin to the discovery by Thomas E. Wilson that calcium carbide, which prior to his discovery had been unknown, so far as concerned any commercial purposes, could be electrically produced in large quantities, and that acetylene gas could be practically, successfully, and economically generated therefrom. This discovery was considered so important that several million dollars were expended in the purchase and sale of rights under the Wilson patents. Owing to the peculiar richness of this gas in…
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