The Patent System and Inventive Activity During the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1852

argument Arkwright Bennet Woodcroft Birmingham Birnie to Tweeddale Boulton and Watt British Brougham MSS Cambridge capital caveats claimed Committee on Patents cost of patenting County Record Office courts Dundonald MSS early Economic History Review eighteenth century engine evidence expensive facturers firms Firstly granted Hansard Hindmarch Ibid important improvements increased industrial revolution infringement innovation inventive activity inventive output inventors investment in invention James Watt John Farey labour Letters Patent licence London machine Manchester manufacturers Marshall MSS Matthew Boulton Mechanics Magazine monopoly multiple patentees Musson and Robinson Newton nineteenth century number of patents Papers Parl Parliament partnership patent activity patent agents Patent Law Patent Office patent reform patent system Patents for Invention produced profits Public Petition Reports Rosser royalty Select Committee Society of Arts specification suggested T. S. Ashton technological change Tweeddale MSS Watt junior Watt MSS Webster Wedgwood whilst William Fairbairn Woodcroft XVIII