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Patents And Cartographic Inventions
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Author : Mark Monmonier
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-03-28
Patents And Cartographic Inventions written by Mark Monmonier and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-28 with Social Science categories.
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.
A Directory Of Cartographic Inventors
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Author : Mark S. Monmonier
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-03-10
A Directory Of Cartographic Inventors written by Mark S. Monmonier and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-10 with Cartographers categories.
As its title and subtitle imply, this book is a collection of short biographies of people awarded United States patents for inventions intended to improve map use or map making. We say "intended" because, as with most patented innovations, their clever ideas seldom made it to store shelves, magazine ads, or mail order catalogs-a fate shared with most improvements proposed in cartography's scientific-technical journals. This collection is a spinoff of a project focused on inventions rather than inventors. The project's principal product was Monmonier's book Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History, published in 2017 by Palgrave Macmillan. As its chapter titles confirm, the emphasis was on genres of innovation like route-following devices and map folding, rather than on their inventors, whose diverse life stories could too readily distract from a narrative focused on technological trends, clever ideas, and wider impacts.
Clock And Compass
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Author : Mark Monmonier
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2022-04-12
Clock And Compass written by Mark Monmonier and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A city guy who aspired to be a farmer, John Byron Plato took a three-month winter course in agriculture at Cornell before starting high school, which he left a year before graduation to fight with US troops during the Spanish-American War. After the war he worked as a draftsman, ran a veneers business, patented and manufactured a parking brake for horse-drawn delivery wagons, taught school, and ran a lumber yard. In his early thirties he bought some farmland north of Denver and began raising Guernsey cattle, which he advertised for sale in the local paper. When an interested buyer eager to see his calves couldn't find his farm, Plato realized that an RFD postal address was only good for delivering mail. Farmers had started buying cars and trucks, but without adequate maps and signage townsfolk couldn't visit them and they couldn't easily find each other. Plato's solution was a map-and-directory combo that used direction and distance from a local business center to give farmers a real address, just like city folk. He patented his invention and tried to sell it to the Post Office, which took a pass-their business was delivering mail, not facilitating travel. Because the clockface's hours provided the directions, he called his strategy the "Clock System." Some Chicago promoters became intrigued but after their plans failed to gel, he decided to produce the maps himself. Rural sociologists at Cornell, who considered the Clock System an antidote for rural isolation, encouraged him to start a business in Ithaca, where he mapped a dozen New York counties until the Great Depression intervened and he left to work as a government mapmaker in Washington. Between 1936 (after his patent had expired) and 1940, some Ithaca businessmen validated the concept by making "Compass System" maps for half the state's counties"--
Cartography
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Author : Matthew H. Edney
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-04-12
Cartography written by Matthew H. Edney and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-12 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.
Play Among Books
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Author : Miro Roman
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2021-12-06
Play Among Books written by Miro Roman and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-06 with Architecture categories.
How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.
Towards Sustainable Customization Bridging Smart Products And Manufacturing Systems
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Author : Ann-Louise Andersen
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-10-31
Towards Sustainable Customization Bridging Smart Products And Manufacturing Systems written by Ann-Louise Andersen and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-31 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book features state-of-the-art contributions from two well-established conferences: Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual Production Conference (CARV2020) and Mass Customization and Personalization Conference (MCPC2020). Together, they focus on the joint design, development, and management of products, production systems, and business for sustainable customization and personalization. The book covers a large range of topics within this domain, ranging from industrial success factors to original contributions within the field.
Records Relating To Railroads In The Cartographic Section Of The National Archives
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Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Cartographic Section
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Records Relating To Railroads In The Cartographic Section Of The National Archives written by United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Cartographic Section and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Government publications categories.
Annual Report Of The Commissioner Of Patents
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Author : United States. Patent Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Annual Report Of The Commissioner Of Patents written by United States. Patent Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Agriculture categories.
Prior to 1862, when the Department of Agriculture was established, the report on agriculture was prepared and published by the Commissioner of Patents, and forms volume or part of volume, of his annual reports, the first being that of 1840. Cf. Checklist of public documents ... Washington, 1895, p. 148.
U C Davis Law Review
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Author : University of California, Davis. School of Law
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-11
U C Davis Law Review written by University of California, Davis. School of Law and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11 with Law categories.
Commissioner Of Patents Annual Report
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Author : United States. Patent Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Commissioner Of Patents Annual Report written by United States. Patent Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Patents categories.