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 English Patent System
The English Patent System

Author: William Martin

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781017409796

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The Industrial and Commercial Influence of the English Patent System (Classic Reprint)
The Industrial and Commercial Influence of the English Patent System (Classic Reprint)

Author: Albert Francis Ravenshear

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-17

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781528076852

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Excerpt from The Industrial and Commercial Influence of the English Patent System Hile many works deal fully with patents in their legal aspect, and to a less extent with their history, there is none, so far as the writer is aware, in which they have been treated with equal fulness on the economic side. At the same time the references to patents in treatises on Economics are of the scantiest. 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.