Inventing the Industrial Revolution
Subtitle: The English Patent System, 16601800
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780521893992
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Inventions & inventors; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Economic History; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; England; Business & Economics / Economic 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.