Summary of a few Saratoga County inventions featured in the book: 

Lysander Button, Waterford – steam and hand-operated fire engines 

Ransom Cook, Saratoga – auger bit, cannon-making, stenciling 

Henry Miller, Waterford – sound machines (licensed by the Victor Talking Machine Co) and knitting machines

Theodore Timby, Saratoga – revolving turret used on Monitor iron-clad in Civil War 

George West, Ballston Spa – square-bottomed paper bag 

George Eddy, Waterford – Mohawk Hydrant and Eddy Valve 

George Batcheller, Saratoga – Batcheller Mansion, first copyrighted residence 

Charles Dowd, Saratoga – Standard Time 

Ebenezer Holmes, Saratoga – refrigerated casket, used to preserve the body of Gen Ulysses Grant when he died on Mt McGregor

Luke Kavanaugh, Waterford – knitting machine burrs, used around the country 

Solomon Smith, Waterford – furnace air current governors, used around the country 

William Potter, Clifton Park – roofing composition in wide use today

Israel Mosher - shovel plow sold throughout the county

Benjamin Barber - double-turbine water wheel that tested as one of the best in the country

John Hegeman - folding pontoon boat manufactured and sold at Ballston Spa's Blue Mill

Joel Farnam and John Hatfield - refined and produced the country's first striking matches

"Invented in Saratoga County" contains hundreds of graphics and photographs, some of which have never been published before. For example, there is a photograph from the Michael Noonan Collection of George Crum (inventor of the potato chip), Village President Caleb Mitchell (gambling house owner and inventor of a serving table), and what is believed to be Cary Moon, owner of Moon's Lake House. There are also dozens of graphics taken from the original patent drawings to aid the reader in visualizing the inventions. Information was drawn from more than fifty resources, including many books that are over one hundred years old (found in the bibliography).