History of Technology Volume 24

by Ian Inkster

Overview

The technical problems confronting different societies in different periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, the volumes in this series explore the relationship of technology to other aspects of life-social, cultural and economic-and show how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it has occurred.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350019003
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/30/2016
Series:	History of Technology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Ian Inkster is Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

Table of Contents

Volume 24 of History of Technology is made up mostly of papers in a Special Issue under the heading Patents in History.
1. Patents in 19th century Mexico, by Edward Beatty
2. Babcock and Wilcox ,1850-1910, by Kristine Bruland
3. Patenting in 18th century France and Piedmont, by Louisa Dolza and Liliane Hilaire-Perez
4. The Spanish system ,1770-1903, by J. Patricio Saiz Gonzalez
5. Patenting in Russia, by D. and I. Gouzevitch
6. Patents and Marconi's wireless telegraphy, by Anna Guagnini
7. Antecedents to intellectual property, by Christopher May
8. Spanish patenting and technological dependency, pre-1936, by Jose M. Ortiz-Villajos
9. Transatlantic patent transfers in the salt industry, by Peter Piasecki
10. Early European patenting, by Carlo Poni