The interpretation of intellectual property law in this is completely wrong. * Patents must have disclosure because the trade-off of monopoly rights is that yo

The interpretation of intellectual property law in this is completely wrong. * Patents must have disclosure because the trade-off of monopoly rights is that you make your invention publicly available and further the arts and sciences. * Copyright doesn't cover functional elements - it didn't then, and it doesn't now. * He simply kept things secret - we'd call them trade secrets today. The description of intellectual property in this article is very misleading. The Smithsonian should do better than this.