Technological Change in a Society in Transition: Work in Progress on a Unified Reference Work in Early American Patent History

Robert R. MacMurray

The Journal of Economic History, 1985, vol. 45, issue 2, 299-303

Abstract: Fire destroyed the Patent Office on December 15, 1836. From the ensuing actions by the Congress and Commissioner, it is possible to create a comprehensive and accurate description of the scope and level of technology and changes therein, as the United States transformed itself into an industrial society. This paper reports the progress made toward that description (in the form of a unified reference work), illustrates some uses of the data, and suggests other uses of the final version in expanding understanding of the processes of sociocultural change, particularly those of capitalist development.

Date: 1985
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