Inventing the Industrial Revolution
Subtitle: The English Patent System, 16601800
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780521301046
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Patents; History: American; England; 18th century; Business & Economics / Economic History; Great Britain; 17th century; History
First sentence: Over the last two centuries, the word 'patent' has come to have a precise and technical meaning: a grant of monopoly powers over the commercial exploitation of an invention for a limited period.