On July 28, U.S. Attorney General Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shots were fired and two veterans were killed. President Hoover then ordered the army to clear out the veterans. The infantry and cavalry were supported by six tanks, and commanded by Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur. Major, later President, Dwight D. Eisenhower was his liaison with Washington police, and Major George Patton led the cavalry. The Bonus Army, their wives and children were driven out with fixed bayonets and adamsite gas, an arsenical vomiting agent, and their shelters and belongings burned. Two more of the veterans, and an unknown number of babies and children, died.
Edison did not steal inventions from his workers. They were employees under contract and given assignments. Anything any of them came up with belonged to Edison. They all knew that when they took the job and none of them complained.
That's the way pretty much all corporate R&D works now. They provide you with the venue and all the resources. You provide the work and the brainpower and when something is patented, they get the lions share of the royalties, but you still get something out of it.
Universities are far more generous, because they pretty much only provide the venue. You bring in all the external funding, which provides for even most of the capital purchases, so the royalties are usually split 50/50.
On July 28, U.S. Attorney General Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shots were fired and two veterans were killed. President Hoover then ordered the army to clear out the veterans. The infantry and cavalry were supported by six tanks, and commanded by Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur. Major, later President, Dwight D. Eisenhower was his liaison with Washington police, and Major George Patton led the cavalry. The Bonus Army, their wives and children were driven out with fixed bayonets and adamsite gas, an arsenical vomiting agent, and their shelters and belongings burned. Two more of the veterans, and an unknown number of babies and children, died.
That's the way pretty much all corporate R&D works now. They provide you with the venue and all the resources. You provide the work and the brainpower and when something is patented, they get the lions share of the royalties, but you still get something out of it.
Universities are far more generous, because they pretty much only provide the venue. You bring in all the external funding, which provides for even most of the capital purchases, so the royalties are usually split 50/50.