Patents and Cartographic Inventions (eBook)

A New Perspective for Map History

Mark Monmonier (Autor)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XV, 267 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-51040-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 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, Mark Monmonier 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. 

Mark Monmonier is Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. For numerous papers on digital cartography and the history of cartography as well as 19 books, including How to Lie with Maps, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Geographical Society's O. M. Miller Medal, and the German Cartographic Society's Mercator Medal. 

Inhalt

1. Maps and Patents2. Pinpointing Location3. Showing the Way4. Folding, Unfolding5. World Views6. Global Affairs7. Current EventsAppendix: How to Find a Patent

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.3.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 267 p. 88 illus.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Cartographic Devices • Cartographic Techniques • Cartography • digital cartography • Geographic Information • Geography • History of Geography • History of Science and Technology • Intellectual Property • Map Innovation • Map Patents • Science and Technology Studies • US Cartography • US Maps
• ISBN-10: 3-319-51040-1 / 3319510401
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-51040-8 / 9783319510408