If I understand this correctly, this is someone deliberately attempting to steal the credit for an invention, not someone being (accidentally) misattributed credit (by other people, in-universe). Which would make that a "no", I think. Appeals are available, but may put you closer to the Poisoned Chalice of Aegidian.ffutures wrote: ↑Fri Feb 12, 2021 2:29 amIn Harry Harrison's In Our Hands, The Stars AKA The Daleth Effect the antigravity machine is invented by Arnie Klein, an Israeli scientist. But he tries to keep it secret and of course never patents it. The discovery eventually results in his death at the hands of spies trying to steal it and the loss of the spaceship he designed. It is then reinvented by a car manufacturer (I think Japanese but I'm not entirely sure) who launch it as their own invention, if I'm remembering it right - apologies, but it's been a long time since I read it and I can't find my copy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daleth_Effect
To clarify the example given from Known Space, the Outsiders sold the FTL hyperdrive, but without a manual (and on credit - odd for them); then Prof Carmody, worked out more or less how it worked and she wrote the manual for a device invented by someone else. She was wrongly given the credit for inventing it, but not through any action of her own (being a mad genius).
Since this happened during a war, the dubious claw of the Ministry of Truth may have steered the story towards Our Brilliant Boffin Invents Night Vison Carrot Diet For Those Magnificent Men In Their Spitfires and away from Our Asses Were Saved By Cats With LHe For Blood, for morale immoralities. (A real world example of the same ; radar was Top Secret during WW2, but carrot cake was heavily promoted by MiniTru.) This is a sub-text which I suspect, but it's not in the published story.
