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Inventing the Industrial Revolution : The English Patent System, 1660-1800 by Christine MacLeod (2002, Trade Paperback)
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Inventing the Industrial Revolution : The English Patent System, 1, Paperback by MacLeod, Christine, ISBN 0521893992, ISBN-13 9780521893992, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book examines the development of the English patent system and its relationship with technical change between 1660 and 1800.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521893992
ISBN-139780521893992
eBay Product ID (ePID)2232718
Product Key Features
Number of Pages316 Pages
Publication NameInventing the Industrial Revolution : the English Patent System, 1660-1800
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
SubjectEurope / Great Britain / General, History
TypeTextbook
AuthorChristine Macleod
Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16.7 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition19
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal346.4104/86
Table Of ContentList of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Notes on style; Introduction; 1. Patents 1550-1660: law, policy and controversy; 2. The later-Stuart patent grant - an instrument of policy?; 3. The development of the patent system, 1660-1800; 4. The judiciary and the enforcement of patent rights; 5. The decision to patent; 6. Invention outside the patent system; 7. Patents in a capitalist economy; 8. The long-term rise in patents; 9. The goals of invention; 10. Patents: criticisms and alternatives; 11. A new concept of invention; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
SynopsisThis book examines the development of the English patent system and its relationship with technical change during the period between 1660 and 1800, when the patent system evolved from an instrument of royal patronage into one of commercial competition among the inventors and manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution., This book examines the development of the English patent system and its relationship with technical change between 1660 and 1800., This book examines the development of the English patent system and its relationship with technical change during the period between 1660 and 1800, when the patent system evolved from an instrument of royal patronage into one of commercial competition among the inventors and manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution. It analyses the legal and political framework within which patenting took place and gives an account of the motivations and fortunes of patentees, who obtained patents for a variety of purposes beyond the simple protection of an invention. It includes the first in-depth attempt to gauge the reliability of the patent statistics as a measure of inventive activity and technical change in the early part of the Industrial Revolution, and suggests that the distribution of patents is a better guide to the advance of capitalism than to the centres of inventive activity. It also queries the common assumption that the chief goal of inventors was to save labour, and examines contemporary criticism of the patent system in the light of the changing conceptualisation of invention among natural scientists and political economists.
LC Classification NumberT257.P2M33 2002
