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Patents and cartographic inventions : a new perspective for map history
- Title
- Patents and cartographic inventions : a new perspective for map history / Mark Monmonier.
- Author
- Monmonier, Mark S.
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- xv, 267 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- Explores the US patent system, which helped practical minded innovators establish intellectual property rights and fulfill the need for achievement that motivates inventors and scholars alike. In this sense, the patent system was a parallel literature: a vetting institution similar to the conventional academic-scientific-technical journal insofar as the patent examiner was both editor and peer reviewer, while the patent attorney was a co-author or ghost writer. In probing evolving notions of novelty, non-obviousness, and cumulative innovation, the author examines rural address guides, folding schemes, world map projections, diverse improvements of the terrestrial globe, mechanical route-following machines that anticipated the GPS navigator, and the early electrical you-are-here mall map, which opened the way for digital cartography and provided fodder for patent trolls, who treat the patent largely as a license to litigate.
- Series Statement
- Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Text in English.
- Contents
- Maps and patents -- Pinpointing places -- Showing the way -- Folding, unfolding -- World views -- Global affairs -- Current events -- Appendix: how to find a patent -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-6819
- ISBN
- 3319510398
- 9783319510392
- OCLC
- 964292853
- Author
- Monmonier, Mark S.
- Title
- Patents and cartographic inventions : a new perspective for map history / Mark Monmonier.
- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Palgrave studies in the history of science and technologyPalgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Text in English.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Monmonier, Mark. Patents and cartographic inventions. A new perspective for map history. Cham : Springer International Publishing 2017 9783319510392 (OCoLC)980875171
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-6819