Arkwright
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the Arkwrights
in the texts
The Law of Intellectual Property
Inventor associated with textile machinery, cited as an example of a unique inventor.
Yet who can say that what is true of Alexander, and Cæsar, and Napoléon, and Raphael, and Angelo, and Franklin, is not equally true of Arkwright, and Watt, and Fulton, and Morse?
Government cannot compel the Arkwrights, and Fultons, and Morses to invent their great ideas, and give them to mankind.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Inventor named as a comparison for Bentham's mechanical turn of mind.
In studying Bentham’s intellectual character we are reminded that, if he was the follower of Hobbes and of Locke, he was the contemporary of Arkwright and of Watt.