George M. Hopkins was an inventor, patent attorney, and author. As an inventor, he was awarded over twenty-five US patents between 1869 and 1893 for improvements to machinery, telephone and telegraph equipment. As an electrical engineer he was Electrical Division editor for Scientific American Journal and a close associate of Thomas Edison. With his many years of personal experience as an inventor, he opened an office in New York City as a patent attorney and authored "The Inventors Manual: How to Work a Patent and Make it Pay" first published in 1889. His physics textbook "Experimental Science" published in 1889 continued to be revised and re-published for twenty-five years after his death under-going twenty-seven editions. Both books remain available today as reprints.
George M. Hopkins married Helen Mills about 1864. Their son, Albert Allis Hopkins (1869 - 1939) continued in his father's footsteps working for forty-fours years as associate editor of Scientific American. Albert A. was also a noted art historian and the author of numerous books on scientific subjects.
George M. Hopkins married Helen Mills about 1864. Their son, Albert Allis Hopkins (1869 - 1939) continued in his father's footsteps working for forty-fours years as associate editor of Scientific American. Albert A. was also a noted art historian and the author of numerous books on scientific subjects.
George M. Hopkins was an inventor, patent attorney, and author. As an inventor, he was awarded over twenty-five US patents between 1869 and 1893 for improvements to machinery, telephone and telegraph equipment. As an electrical engineer he was Electrical Division editor for Scientific American Journal and a close associate of Thomas Edison. With his many years of personal experience as an inventor, he opened an office in New York City as a patent attorney and authored "The Inventors Manual: How to Work a Patent and Make it Pay" first published in 1889. His physics textbook "Experimental Science" published in 1889 continued to be revised and re-published for twenty-five years after his death under-going twenty-seven editions. Both books remain available today as reprints.
George M. Hopkins married Helen Mills about 1864. Their son, Albert Allis Hopkins (1869 - 1939) continued in his father's footsteps working for forty-fours years as associate editor of Scientific American. Albert A. was also a noted art historian and the author of numerous books on scientific subjects.
George M. Hopkins married Helen Mills about 1864. Their son, Albert Allis Hopkins (1869 - 1939) continued in his father's footsteps working for forty-fours years as associate editor of Scientific American. Albert A. was also a noted art historian and the author of numerous books on scientific subjects.
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