A fundamental reassessment of the contribution of patenting to British industrialisation during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This book, first published in 2005, examines the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century'.

An engagingly written account of textile engineering in its key northern centres, rich with historical narrative and analysis. The engineers who built the first

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This volume offers a detailed account of the development of national patent systems, and then moving on to the international sphere to discuss the factors which