A dramatized history traces the American patent system and the inventors and inventions it encouraged, linking legal protection to technological progress.

This Columbia Workshop broadcast aired on November 28, 1936. It is listed as episode 18 in the archive. CBS Radio Network carried the broadcast.

CBS's influential experimental anthology, created as a laboratory for radio drama and known for unusual scripts, literary adaptations, music, narration, and inventive use of sound.

Listeners can expect drama, anthology in format, and cerebral in tone.