The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention Rosen WilliamPaperback
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention Rosen WilliamPaperback Hardly a week passes without some high-profile court case that features intellectual property at…
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention Rosen WilliamPaperback
Hardly a week passes without some high-profile court case that features intellectual property at its center. And how did that belief change the way humankind lives and works?William Rosen, author of Justinian's Flea, seeks to answer these questions and more with The Most Powerful Idea in the World. But how did the belief that one could own an idea come about?
To do so, Rosen conjures up an eccentric cast of characters, including the legal philosophers who enabled most the inventive society in millennia, and the scientists and inventors-Thomas Newcomen, A lively and passionate study of the engineering and scientific breakthroughs that led to the steam engine, this book argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution: history's first sustained era of economic improvement.