Publication 153, 1909, The Aero exhibition at Olympia
Flight remarks on the significance of the International Aero and Motor-Boat Exhibition, scheduled for March, held jointly by the Aero Club of the United Kingdom and the Society of Motor Manufacturers, for the future of the aero industry, and admonishes individual inventors not to withhold their inventions in the hopes of winning big with a master patent:
It is to be hoped that no inventor will hold back in the belief that he possesses anything in the nature of a master-patent, which may be jeopardised, either as regards home rights or future foreign rights, by showing his machine sin public. Already it has been proved that there is more than one way in which to achieve mechanical flight; and the past history of the motor car has demonstrated ad infinitum that, in huge mechanical developments of this character, monopoly, in any shape or form, is positively detrimental to anyone who wishes to convert into money his abilities as an originator or as a designer. No single individual or firm can hope to perfect an aeroplane off his or its own bat, within the time that is rendered available by the contemporaneous progress of a whole army of competitors; and wise is the aeronautic inventor of to-day who takes heed of the lessons are to be learned from the last decade of automobilism. Except in minor details, the possession of patents of a basic kind are apt to be a hindrance to commercial success, rather than an assistance, because even an inferior system, developed simultaneously, and free from all restraint, in hundreds of factories throughout the civilised world, actually stands a far better chance of meeting the public demand than does a more theoretically perfect system which may be cooped up for years in the workshops of the monopoly-holder.
| Original title | The Aero exhibition at Olympia |
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| Simple title | The Aero exhibition at Olympia |
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| Date | 1909 |
| Countries | GB |
| Languages | en |
| Keywords | exhibition, International Aero and Motor-Boat Exhibition, patent, innovation |
| Journal | Flight |
| Related to aircraft? | 1 |
| Page count | 1 |
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Sources
- Brockett 1910, page 12, entry 153: Aero (The) exhibition at Olympia. Flight, Vol. 1, No. 5 (Jan. 1909), London, p. 59. S (153
- Scan from Flight
