Errors in 'American Genius'

[Jack Sullivan]

Yes, there are mistakes in the book that should be pointed out and corrected but your claims that it's poorly researched and doesn't meet the standard of "curatorial scholarship", are exaggerated and incorrect. Show me a book or academic paper about anything that doesn't have multiple errors and I'll show you my pet unicorn Sally.

Again, there are multiple mistakes in the book and it's great that you want to find them, however, there is no need to repeatedly attack the authors because the book has mistakes and ommisions. Most reasonable and knowledgable people would agree that overall, it's a very well-researched book.

Please understand that i don't believe I'm attacking anyone. And this a mass market coffee table book, not a scholarly tome. As such it shouldn't be expected to rise to that level of scholarship. And from what I've seen from the several examples that I've posted, it doesn't.

My area of interest is patents. If you mention a patent associated with a lock, either mention the number or, if you do mention the number, at least make sure it is correct. The principal author is curator of the Mossman collection so you would think that he had all the proper information available to him when he wrote this book.

Jack