Questions about an invention date, historical source, inventor attribution, or factual correction can be submitted here.
The contact address for InventionVault.org is:
Messages concerning factual accuracy, historical documentation, disputed inventor claims, missing sources, copyright, privacy, or technical problems can be sent to this address.
Contact Subjects
- Factual corrections: incorrect dates, names, locations, technical descriptions, or historical claims.
- Inventor attribution: competing claims, omitted contributors, incorrect credit, or an oversimplified single-inventor account.
- Source submissions: patents, archive records, museum catalogues, university collections, technical papers, books, and contemporary documents.
- Broken references: unavailable source links, incorrectly linked records, or citations that no longer support the associated statement.
- Copyright matters: image ownership, quotation concerns, attribution requests, or removal requests supported by relevant documentation.
- Privacy requests: requests involving personal information and applicable data-protection rights.
- Technical problems: inaccessible pages, display errors, navigation problems, or broken site functions.
Correction Request Details
A correction request can be assessed more accurately when it contains:
- The full URL of the relevant InventionVault page.
- The exact sentence, table entry, date, name, or attribution being questioned.
- A concise explanation of the proposed correction.
- A link or full citation for the supporting evidence.
- Any distinction between the first concept, prototype, patent, demonstration, commercial version, or later improvement.
Strong supporting records include: patent-office documents, museum object records, university archives, government publications, laboratory records, contemporary technical literature, peer-reviewed research, and academic histories that identify their evidence.
Inventor Attribution Disputes
An attribution request should explain which contribution is being claimed. Relevant distinctions may include the earliest documented idea, first working model, first patent, first successful demonstration, decisive technical refinement, first commercial production, or the version that established a lasting standard.
A later biography, company statement, family account, or repeated web claim may provide useful context, but it does not by itself override contemporary documentation. Conflicting evidence is evaluated according to its date, provenance, specificity, and connection to the historical event.
Source Submissions
A source submission should include enough bibliographic information for the record to be identified. Depending on the source type, this may include the author, title, institution, publication date, patent number, collection name, catalogue number, archive reference, edition, page number, or stable URL.
Sources from museums, universities, libraries, archives, government bodies, patent offices, scientific institutions, and recognized professional organizations receive priority. Anonymous summaries and pages that do not identify their evidence cannot normally establish a historical correction.
Copyright and Privacy Requests
Copyright requests should identify the relevant page or media item, describe the rights involved, and include documentation showing the requester’s authority to act. Requests are evaluated according to the material, its source, the manner of use, and the information supplied.
Privacy and personal-data requests can also be sent to support@inventionvault.org. Identity or authority may need to be verified before certain requests can be processed. Additional information is available on the Privacy Policy page.
Review Process
Messages are reviewed according to subject and available evidence. A straightforward typographical error may require only a direct check, while a disputed date or inventor claim may require comparison across patents, institutional records, contemporary publications, and later historical research.
Submission of a request does not guarantee that a page will be changed. A revision is made when the available evidence supports a more accurate, precise, or properly qualified account.
Requests Outside the Archive’s Scope
Generic guest-post pitches, product-review proposals, affiliate offers, link-placement requests, paid backlink requests, and unrelated promotional submissions are outside the historical archive’s contact scope.
Independence
InventionVault.org is an independent information website. It is not a museum, university, patent office, government agency, manufacturer, professional association, or official representative of any inventor or institution.