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Author MacLeod, Christine, 1952-

Title Inventing the Industrial Revolution : the English patent system, 1660-1800 / Christine MacLeod
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002
©1988

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Description xii, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 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 outisde 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
Analysis England Patent system, 1660-1800
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 272-292
Subject Inventions -- Great Britain -- History.
Patents -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Patents -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
LC no. 87037406
ISBN 0521893992 (paperback)