Inventing the Industrial Revolution
Inventing the Industrial Revolution

Author: Christine MacLeod

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-05-09

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780521893992

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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.

The Temple Primers
The Temple Primers

Author: William Martin

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-11

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9780266186250

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Excerpt from The Temple Primers: The English Patent System In the first place, and before treating in detail the present day law, a brief history of patents from the Middle Ages to the dawn of the twentieth century will be given. As the natural sequence, exposition of modern policy in relation to patents can follow. The jurisprudential side of patents and the rights conferred thereby can next claim attention, after which a few legal considerations that bear upon the commercial value of patents may be touched upon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.