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Inventions and official secrecy : a history of secret patents in the United Kingdom

Title
Inventions and official secrecy : a history of secret patents in the United Kingdom / T.H. O'Dell.
Author
O'Dell, T. H. (Thomas Henry)
Publication
  • Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, [1994]
  • ©1994

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Description
xi, 149 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Patent laws and legislation > Great Britain > History
  • Official secrets > Great Britain > History
  • Patents > Great Britain > History
  • Secrets d'État > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire
  • Official secrets
  • Patent laws and legislation
  • Patents
  • Patent
  • Geheimhaltung
  • Geschichte
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [140]-143) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The First Secret Patent -- 3. The Secret Patents Act of 1859 -- 4. Towards an Official Secrets Act -- 5. The Secrets of Two Technical Revolutions -- 6. Introducing the Examiners -- 7. Between the Wars -- 8. The Second World War -- 9. Making Wartime Procedure Permanent -- 10. The Last Secret Patent.
ISBN
  • 0198259425
  • 9780198259428
LCCN
94028886
OCLC
  • ocm31240518
  • 31240518
  • SCSB-2047399
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library