Patents and Cartographic Inventions

A New Perspective for Map History
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-84551-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 267 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

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. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Monmonier, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie GIS, Geoinformatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Maps and Patents.- 2. Pinpointing Location.- 3. Showing the Way.- 4. Folding, Unfolding.- 5. World Views.- 6. Global Affairs.- 7. Current Events.- Appendix: How to Find a Patent.

Über Autor(innen)

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.