The British Patent System during the Industrial Revolution 1700-1852

by Sean Bottomley

The British Patent System during the Industrial Revolution 1700-1852 presents a fundamental reassessment of the contribution of patenting to British industrialisation during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It shows that despite the absence of legislative reform, the British patent system was continually evolving and responding to the needs of an industrialising economy. Inventors were able to obtain and enforce patent rights with relative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107058295
• ISBN13: 9781107058293
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"