Год выпуска: 2002 Автор: Christine MacLeod Издательство: Cambridge University Press Страниц: 316 ISBN: 0521893992
Описание
This book examines the development of the English patent system and its relationship with technical change during the period between 1660 and 1800, when the patent system evolved from an instrument of royal patronage into one of commercial competition among the inventors and manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution. It analyses the legal and political framework within which patenting took place and gives an account of the motivations and fortunes of patentees, who obtained patents for a variety of purposes beyond the simple protection of an invention. It includes the first in-depth attempt to gauge the reliability of the patent statistics as a measure of inventive activity and technical change in the early part of the Industrial Revolution, and suggests that the distribution of patents is a better guide to the advance of capitalism than to the centres of inventive activity. It also queries the common assumption that the chief goal of inventors was to save labour, and examines...
Ирина, я просто в восторге!!! Даже, наверное, это я слабо выразилась. Я ее всю естественно не читала, но то, что я отрывками прочитала, и просмотрела, мне понравилось ужасно. Если работу оценят на пять, я вам вышлю еще 2000 рублей. (1000 за то, что она (уже) нравится мне, и 1000 за огромный труд.) Спасибо еще раз!!!