Earmuffs for Everyone!: How Chester Greenwood Became Known as the Inventor of Earmuffs

3.5 includes: A Note About This Book, All about Patents, Bibliography, and Acknowledgments

Earmuffs for everyone: how Cester Greenwood by Chester Greenwood
1877 Story of who invented earmuffs and other facts about them.
Also other inventions he created.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).

This book gives a backstory on an interesting inventor and also the invention/patent process.

This is the story of how Chester Greenwood invented earmuffs, sort of! He actually took the idea and just made it better with his own design and then later in the 1970s there became a Chester Greenwood day. It also goes into the historical development of this product and business methods.

What's great about his book is that it explains both how a thing becomes "invented" and also (even more importantly) how the story of an invention becomes part of the collective memory and, eventually, considered history.

Nice little nonfiction book about the development of earmuffs. Particularly useful if you need to get into copyright/patent law with kids (I'm serious) or if you want to consider truth vs how history is remembered/recorded.