Overview
- Is the only map history book focusing on patented inventions
- Delivers an engaging, well-written account of how diverse inventors, practical-minded or fanciful, proposed clever ways to create or use maps
- Opens new areas for research on the history of cartography
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology (PSHST)
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“Mark Monmonier reveals and organizes, for the first time, a wealth of information about how many ingenious persons in modern America responded to the social and technological challenges and opportunities that everyday map use presented, from how to fold a map to how to conceptualize the world.” (Matthew Edney, Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, University of Southern Maine, USA)
“This is a major contribution that explores an area in the history of cartography that is not simply ignored by historians of cartography, but basically unknown to them—patents and inventions pertaining to maps and globes. The book is thoroughly researched, and in addition to examining patent applications makes use of genealogical research tools to learn more about the inventors. Well-written and richly illustrated with original patent drawings, the subjects range from transfer tickets to electric maps.” (Judith Tyner, Professor Emerita of Geography, California State University, Long Beach, USA)
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Book Title: Patents and Cartographic Inventions
Book Subtitle: A New Perspective for Map History
Authors: Mark Monmonier
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51040-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Mark Monmonier 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84551-7Published: 21 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51040-8Published: 28 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2730-972X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9738
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 267
Number of Illustrations: 88 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, History of Technology