History of Technology: v. 24

This collection of papers tries to capture the evolution of patent systems during the long period of emergent and spreading industrialism. The papers highlight the contradicitions and complexities inherent in the development of a system of intellectual property rights.
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. The series deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.