'Inventors of the world of goods' in K Bruland & P O'Brien (eds), From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism. Essays in business and industrial history in honour of Peter Mathias
Details:
- Author(s) Berg, Maxine
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1998
- Pages pp21-50
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
- Name Consumption, consumerism & associated ethics
- Name Intellectual property inc patents, trade marks, designs & copyright inc management
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with invention in terms of product development which is linked to consumer demand. The focus is the 'presentation of invention and commodities [products] in the eighteenth century as these were conveyed in key documentary evidence of the time'. Focuses on the case study of Birmingham manufacturing and, inter alia, the experience of James Bisset. Sections include: 'Consumer industry in eighteenth century Birmingham'; 'James Bisset'; 'Patents and trade catalogues'; 'Quality controls and market institutions'