Patents and Cartographic Inventions : A New Perspective for Map History

• Main Author: Monmonier, Mark. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Geographical information systems.; Technology > History.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319510408
• Physical Description: XV, 267 p. 88 illus. online resource.

This book 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...